Article 42 — Definition

1/ A Commercial Agent is a person or business organization, not bound to a trader by a contract of employment and carrying out independent activities, who is entrusted by a trader with representing him permanently in a specified area or to certain customers of the trader and dealing or making agreement in the name and on behalf of the trader. 2/ Unless otherwise provided in the agency agreement, contracts entered into by a commercial agent shall become effective without confirmation by the trader. 3/ A commercial agent normally acts as an agent and may act as a broker. He is a trader.