독일 상법 제89 b조 대리상의 보상청구권에 관한 연구

The German Commercial Code § 89 b provides commercial agents with rights to claim for compensation under certain conditions. There are several preconditions for this claim under the Code: agency contract should be terminated; principal should preserve considerable future earnings after the termination of contract; compensation should be paid in an appropriate rate based on the principles of equity. The amount of compensation should be calculated based on the commissions paid to the agents over the last 12 months of the agency contract. In addition, the amount of compensation should be decided after deducting commissions that were already paid for the trading with the existing customers and for the management behaviors, and after considering the loss of value from the leaving customers who are newly collected. However, it cannot exceed a year’s commission averaged over the last 5 years of the agency contract. Compensation upon the termination is justified by circumstances attributable to the principal of a commercial agency contract without any critical reasons caused by an agent. In addition, the compensation claim cannot be excluded before the termination of an agency contract and should be executed within one year after the termination of the contract.