Qatar Trade Law No. 27/2006 Thursday, 21 July 2011 01:23

All the procedures of the implementation of the commercially mortgaged things, shall be followed while implementing the goods and objects in the possession of the agent to meet his rights

However, if the agent is in charge of the sale of the goods or things in his possession, he may implement the sale without the need to follow the procedures referred to, but if he faced difficulty in the implementation of the instructions of the client regarding the sale.

If the client doesn’t have a known home in Qatar, his agent’s home in the country shall be considered as home for the client. He can be prosecuted and notified with the official papers in the country, in respect of work carried out by the agent for him.

The commercial agency shall end with the completion of the work under the agency or upon the expiry of the specified term. The same shall also end with the death of the client or the agent or the loss of eligibility of any of them or bankruptcy of the agent.

It is not allowed to protest the expiry of the agency against the other in good faith, when he contracted with the agent without his knowledge upon the expiry of the agency.

With respect to the regulation of engagement in the commercial agency the laws and the resolutions related to that shall be applied.

Some types of commercial agency

1 - A. Contracts Agency and Contract Distribution

A contract agency is a contract under which the agent continuously in the specific activity seeks and negotiates the conclusion of the transactions for the benefit of the client for a fee. His task may include the conclusion of these transactions and their implementation on behalf of the client and on his account.

The contract of the contract agency must be recorded in writing. It must specify in particular, the limits of the agency, fees of the agent, area of ​​activity, duration of the contract if it is for a fixed term and the trademark of the commodity which is under the agency, if any.

The agent of the contracts shall exercise the works of his agency and manage his commercial activity independently and he shall alone bear the expenses for the management of his activity.

The client may not be assisted by more than one contracts agent in the same region with the same branch of activity.

If it is stipulated in the contract that the contracts agent shall assess the buildings of display or storage of goods or facilities for the maintenance or repair or he shall spend unusual amounts to be required to exercise the agency’s work, the term of the contract cannot be less than five years.

It is not allowed for the contracts agent to take the financial rights of the client, unless the client permits him to do so. In this case, the agent may not grant a reduction or term without a special permission.

The contracts agent may receive the requests for the execution of contracts that are concluded by him as well as the complaints about non-implementation of these contracts. He shall be representative of his client in the cases related to these contracts, which are filed by him or against him in the area of ​​activity of the agent.

The client is committed to pay the agreed wage to the agent. This wage may be a percentage of the value of the deal and this percentage shall be calculated on the basis of the sale price to the customer, unless otherwise agreed.

The contracts agent deserves the wage for the transactions that are accomplished or the ones which are not completed because of client’s act, unless the contract requires otherwise.

The agent also deserves the wage for the transactions entered into by the client directly or through others, in the area specified for the activity of agent, even if these transactions were not completed as a result of the pursuit of the latter, unless the parties expressly agree otherwise.