European Union – Commercial agent. The Court of Justice of the European Union gave a preliminary ruling on the interpretation of art 11 of Council Directive (EEC) 86/653 relating to self-employed commercial agents. The Court held, among other things, that the first indent of art 11(1) of that directive should be interpreted as meaning that it covered not only cases of complete non-execution of the contract concluded between the principal and the third party, but also cases of partial non-execution of that contract, such as non-compliance with the volume of transactions or the duration envisaged by that contract.