Article 58 — Definition

1/ A Commission Agent is a person or business organization who, independently, professionally and for gain, undertakes to buy or to sell goods, movables or any other thing of a similar nature in his name, but on behalf of the principal, or to enter into a contract of carriage of goods in his name but on behalf of the principal. 2/ A commission agent is a trader, regardless of the parties and of the nature and object of the contract.