38Having regard to the objective of predictability laid down by the legislature in recital 11 in the preamble to the regulation, and taking account of the wording of the second indent of Article 5(1)(b), according to which it is the place in a Member State where, under the contract, the services were provided or should have been provided which is decisive, the place of the main provision of services must be deduced, in so far as possible, from the provisions of the contract itself. Thus, in the context of a commercial agency contract, the place where the agent was to carry out his work on behalf of the principal, consisting in particular in preparing, negotiating and, where appropriate, concluding the transactions for which he has authority has to be identified, on the basis of that contract.
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