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Commercial Representation and Exclusive Agency in Lebanon: What Changed After the 2022 Competition Law

Commercial representation in Lebanon is governed by Legislative Decree No. 34 of 5 August 1967, which defines the commercial representative and the sole distributor, sets the form of the contract and the exclusivity clause, affirms the representative's independence, and provides the indemnity owed on termination. Competition Law No. 281 of 15 March 2022 then made a material change to this regime: an exclusivity clause no longer binds third parties even when registered, parallel imports are now lawful, and the old...