e) To attend the educational programs organized by the franchisor, or ensure the attendance of the personnel;
f) To implement the commercial methods, and use the licensed intellectual and industrial property rights envisaged by the franchisor, including the later changes;
g) To comply with the standards envisaged by the franchisor, in relation to equipment and facilities and/or transportation vehicles forming the subject of the agreement;
h) To allow the franchisor to supervise the facilities and/or transportation vehicles forming the subject of the agreement, and inventories and accounts, including the goods sold and services provided;
i) Not to change the place of the facilities forming the subject of the agreement, without the consent of the franchisor;
j) Not to assign the rights and obligations in the franchise agreement, without the consent of the franchisor;
The obligations in this article are granted exemption even if they do not exist together with any of the obligations in Article 4.
Compulsory Elements to be Present in the Agreement in order to be able to Grant Exemption
Article 7- The exemption mentioned in Article 2 of this Communiqué is applicable in case the following terms and obligations take place in the agreement:
a) The franchisee has to be free to purchase the goods forming the subject of the franchise from the other franchisors, and the distributors in the event of distributing such goods via the network of other authorized distributors;
b) Where the franchisor obliges the franchisee to give guarantees for the goods of the franchisor, such obligation has to be fulfilled by the franchisee also for the goods supplied from any member of the franchise network, or the other distributors giving similar guarantees;
c) The franchisee has to be an independent undertaking. However, this independency should not affect, particularly, the common identity of the franchise network which is a result of the brands and signs used, and the uniform appearance of the facilities and/or transportation vehicles forming the subject of the agreement. Conditions and Obligations outside the Block Exemption
Conditions and Obligations outside the Block Exemption Article 8- In case one or more of the following conditions and obligations take
place in the agreement, the exemption mentioned in Article 2 is not applicable: In case a) The undertakings producing the goods or providing the services that are
the same in terms of their characteristics, prices and intended uses, or deemed equivalent by the users, conclude franchise agreements for such goods and services;
b) The franchisor is prevented from supplying goods having the same quality with those provided by the franchisor, reserving subparagraph (e) of Article 4, and subparagraph (b) of the first paragraph of Article 5;
c) The franchisee is obliged to sell or use the goods produced by the franchisor or third parties designated by the franchisor, during the provision of goods
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