PROVISIONS REGULATING COMMERCIAL DISTRIBUTION CONTRACT IN JORDANIAN LAW

Abstract

The commercial distribution contract, which might be local or international, is regarded one of the most updated methods in trading, selling, and marketing products, commodities, and services for consumers. As this type of contract urgently needs regulating, the study helps in illustrating the contract’s aspects, principles, effects, termination and obligations of both producer and distributor, in addition to, liquidation of contractual bond. Through this type of contract is important, yet there is no legal statute to regulate it. Due to this absence, a lot of problems emerge when it is put into practice. Therefore, general laws are applied sometimes, or the law of agents or commercial brokers in others. Consequently, it has become urgent to enact a legislation to regulate rules and provisions of the contract. The researchers came up to certain findings recommending that it is necessary to enact a legislation that regulates terms of this contract with regard to identity, definitions, principles, parties, obligations, party rights, laps of time with consequential effects, liquidating contractual bond pertaining commodities, trade mark, spare parts, customers with whom the distributor used to deal, in addition to other relevant outcomes of the contract.