10.8.2020   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 262/5


Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 4 June 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal de commerce de Paris — France) — Trendsetteuse SARL v DCA SARL

(Case C-828/18) (1)

(Reference for a preliminary ruling - Self-employed commercial agents - Directive 86/653/EEC - Concept of ‘commercial agent’ - Negotiation of the sale or purchase of goods on behalf of the principal - Intermediary lacking the power to change the conditions of sale and the prices of the goods that intermediary sells)

(2020/C 262/06)

Language of the case: French

Referring court

Tribunal de commerce de Paris

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: Trendsetteuse SARL

Defendant: DCA SARL

Operative part of the judgment

Article 1(2) of Council Directive 86/653/EEC of 18 December 1986 on the coordination of the laws of the Member States relating to self-employed commercial agents must be interpreted as meaning that a person does not need to have the power to change the prices of the goods which he or she sells on behalf of the principal in order to be classified as a commercial agent within the meaning of that provision.


(1)  OJ C 82, 4.3.2019.