Lexicon
We provide you with a lexicon of the main technical terms commonly used in the field of organised commerce. If you are looking for the definition of a term that does not appear here, you can use the ‘Contact’ section of the website to obtain further information. To view the definition you are looking for, simply click on the relevant word; this will take you to the definition and content pages, which are very comprehensive for certain terms, such as ‘franchise’, for example.
A
- Assignment of lease rights
- Assignment of franchise agreement
- Assignment of business assets
- Assignment of networks
- Approval clause
- Affiliation fee
- Agency agreement
- Agreement for temporary occupation
- Abrupt termination of established commercial relations
- Agent manager of a branch (Article L 7321-2 of the Labour Code)
- Advertising
B
C
- Central purchasing body
- Commercial leases
- Confidentiality clause
- Collaboration between franchisor and franchisees
- Counterfeiting
- Concession
- Cooperative
- Copyright
- Comparative advertising
- Corner franchise
D
E
- Exclusivity of activity
- Exclusive or near-exclusive procurement
- European Code of Ethics for Franchising
- Entry fee (or initial lump-sum fee)
- E-commerce website
F
- Fédération Française de la franchise (FFF)
- Franchise
- Financial franchise
- Franchisor
- Fixed prices
- Franchise Agreement
- Fraudulent trademark registration
- Franchise law
- Franchisor assistance
H
I
J
K
L
M
- Master franchise and master licence
- Multi-franchisee
- Minimum sale prices imposed
- Maximum prices imposed
- Multi-franchise
- Management lease
- Management mandate
- Market research
- Minimum turnover
- Minimum target or quota clause
N
O
P
- Pilot outlet
- Pledge of business assets
- Prime Location
- Patent
- Pre-contractual information document (PID)
- Provisional accounts
R
- Royalty
- Reclassification of the franchise agreement as an employment contract
- Royalties
- Recommended prices
- Retail franchise
- Referencing center
- Right of first refusal
- Reservation contract
S
- Sales promotion
- Service franchise
- Signage
- Sales agent
- Signage ownership clause
- Significant imbalance
- Selective distribution
T
- Travel agent and ticket agent
- Termination of the franchise agreement
- Trademark
- Trademark licence
- Territorial exclusivity
- Termination of the franchise agreement
- Trademark registration
U
V