Abstract:

Global trade is substantially based on facilities served by intermediaries during the process of supply and demand. Intermediary may be under principal’s direct control or may itself be an independent enterprise. In the said process, commercial agent as a “self employed” intermediary, serves with continuing authority to negotiate and conclude such transactions on behalf of and in the name of its’ principal. Since the commercial agent fulfills the requirements of the principal’s commercial expectations, the relationship between commercial agent and the principal is totally different than those in labor contract or any other contract that may lead to empower to act on someone’s behalf. Therefore the relationship is accepted to constitute a commercial relationship in every legal system however the concept and the meaning attributed to commercial agent is diverse in different national laws. The subject of the rights and duties (obligations) that is derived from commercial agency contract consequently may vary from one legal system to another. Herein this paper, a comparative analyze upon commercial agency term and contract that unites the rights and obligations of commercial agent is selected as an aim. In this manner, provisions stipulated in European Union Law and European Law particularly in German “Handelsgesetzbuch” and Swiss “Obligationenrecht” will be compared with Turkish Trade Law currently in force and new provisions codified by Law 6102 which is going to be in force by 1st of July, 2012

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