34In that regard, the Court has held that Articles 17 and 18 of that directive are of crucial importance, as they define the level of protection which the European Union legislature considered reasonable to grant commercial agents in the course of the creation of the single market (judgment of 17 October 2013, Unamar, C‑184/12, EU:C:2013:663, paragraph 39). In addition, according to the Court’s case-law, the purpose of Articles 17 to 19 of that directive is to protect the commercial agent after termination of the commercial agency contract. The regime established by Directive 86/653 for that purpose is mandatory in nature (judgments of 9 November 2000, Ingmar, C‑381/98, EU:C:2000:605, paragraph 21, and of 23 March 2006, Honyvem Informazioni Commerciali, C‑465/04, EU:C:2006:199, paragraph 22).
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