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An Uncivil Code in the EU?

In the wake of the tidal wave of franchise regulation that has hit Europe, in France, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Lithuania and Estonia, there is another tidal swell rapidly approaching. Over the last 3 years, a privately financed group of European academics, working under the title, "The Study Group on a European Civil Code," have been developing a model European Civil Code. One of the Study Group's subgroups (the "Amsterdam Team") has drafted a chapter on Commercial Agency, Franchise and Distribution Contracts, the latest draft of which is dated January 2005.

21 minute read February 06, 2006 at 09:35 AM
By
Mark Abell
An Uncivil Code in the EU?

In the wake of the tidal wave of franchise regulation that has hit Europe, in France, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Lithuania and Estonia, there is another tidal swell rapidly approaching.

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