Commercial concession agreements

Application by analogy of article 33(1)(c) of Decree-Law 178/86 of 3 July governing agency agreements

On 4 November 2019, the Supreme Court of Justice issued judgment no. 6/2019 on an appeal for standardisation of case law. This followed the identification of two decisions of that court, handed down under the same legislation, that contain a contradiction regarding the following fundamental question of law: whether article 33(1)(c) of the law on agency agreements can be applied by analogy to concession agreements.