{"id":1728,"date":"2015-10-12T17:46:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T20:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cspabogados.com.ar\/en\/?p=1728"},"modified":"2026-08-19T12:51:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T15:51:50","slug":"franchise-agreement-in-argentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cspabogados.com.ar\/en\/franchise-agreement-in-argentina\/","title":{"rendered":"Franchise agreement in Argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_pb_section_0 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_block_section\"><div class=\"et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_0 et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_0 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_flex_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The franchise agreement in Argentina has recently undergone major changes. Argentina approved a new Civil and Commercial Code by Law Number 26,994, (<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infoleg.gob.ar\/infolegInternet\/anexos\/235000-239999\/235975\/texact.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">C\u00f3digo Civil y Comercial de la Naci\u00f3n<\/a><\/em>\u00a0or CCCN), effective as from 1 August 2015. The CCCN abrogates both the Civil Code and the Commercial Code, as amended, which have ruled Argentine private law for more than one hundred years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under the abrogated Codes, franchise agreements were not statutorily regulated. Therefore, all franchise businesses operating in Argentina were governed by the stipulations agreed upon by the parties in their particular agreements and by case law.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The new CCCN covers franchise agreements in Articles 1,512 through 1,524. As a general principle, the CCCN in its Article 962 sets forth that legal norms relative to contracts only apply in the absence of parties\u00b4 stipulations, unless their imperative nature results from their way of expression, content or context. Should disagreement about the nature of a provision arise out of a contract, a judge will be who ultimately interprets the norm and settle the dispute.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The CCCN, in its Article 1,512, defines commercial franchise (franquicia comercial) as follows: \u201cThere is commercial franchise when a party, named franchisor, grants to the other, named franchisee, the right to use a proven system, aimed to commercialize certain goods or services under the commercial name, commercial symbol, or trademark of the franchisor, who provides a set of technical knowledge and continuous technical or commercial assistance, on a direct or indirect consideration by the franchisee. The franchisor must be the exclusive owner of the set of intellectual rights, trademarks, patents, commercial names, copyrights and others included in the system under franchise, or have the right to use and transmit those rights to the franchisee in the terms of the contract. The franchisor cannot have direct or indirect controlling equity interest in the business of the franchisee\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mario E. Castro Sammartino<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our publications exclusively express the\u00a0author\u00b4s opinion and do not purport to be legal counsel on any case. Should\u00a0you need it, you must consult with your trusted lawyer.\u200b<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,1300,1274],"tags":[40,51,42,43],"csp_materia":[],"csp_coleccion":[],"class_list":["post-1728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies","category-contracts","category-doing-business","tag-contracts","tag-corporate","tag-doing-business-in-argentina","tag-industries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cspabogados.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cspabogados.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cspabogados.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cspabogados.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cspabogados.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cspabogados.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225547,"href":"https:\/\/cspabogados.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions\/225547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cspabogados.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cspabogados.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cspabogados.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"csp_materia","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cspabogados.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/csp_materia?post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"csp_coleccion","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cspabogados.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/csp_coleccion?post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}