EXPERTS QUESTION THE CRITERIA FOR SELECTIVE DISTRIBUTION OF A COSMETICS’ SUPPLIER
August 1st, 2017
INTERNATIONAL US-based luxury cosmetics supplier Coty might have strengthened the rights of brands to control how third-party retailers sell and portray their products in a precedent-setting case at the European Court of Justice (ECJ).
An advocate general of the European Union’s (EU) top court has argued in a formal opinion that EU law allows brands authority over these sales, even being able to prevent purchases, if they dislike how online and traditional bricks-and-mortar stores present their image.
Under ECJ procedures, such formal opinions are often ...
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