Break up but warn! Cardinal point on the abrupt termination of established commercial relations, fixed-term contracts and forced resumption of relations

Article L442-6.5° of the Commercial Code provides that a company is liable if it suddenly breaks established commercial relations, that is to say without respecting a period of notice sufficient to allow the other party to compensate for the termination of relations. The duration of the sufficient notice period is set by the courts, according to several criteria, mainly the length of the relationship, the expenses incurred by the victim of the rupture for the needs of the relationship, the importance of the turnover achieved by it with the author of the rupture (excluding interprofessional agreements on this (…)