30In that regard, it must be observed that, although the question asked by the referring court refers not to a contract for the sale or purchase of goods but to an agency contract for the operation of a shipping service, the fact remains that, when transposing the provisions of that directive into national law, the Belgian legislature decided to apply the same treatment to both types of situation (see, by analogy, Case C-3/04 Poseidon Chartering [2006] ECR I-2505, paragraph 17, and Case C-203/09 Volvo Car Germany [2010] ECR I-10721, paragraph 26). Moreover, as mentioned in paragraph 24 of the present judgment, the Bulgarian legislature has also decided to apply the rules of the directive to commercial agents with authority to negotiate and conclude transactions, such as the agent at issue in the case in the main proceedings.
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