Common use of Independence of the Parties Clause in Contracts

Independence of the Parties. 15.1 As the Agreement is entered into between legally independent persons, the collaboration resulting from the Agreement cannot under any circumstances compromise the independence of the Parties. 15.2 Consequently, the Client solely accepts the consequences of its activities and the operations for which the Service Provider’s assistance and advice are sought and cannot claim to have the Service Provider bear any of its losses, nor be compelled to share its profits with it. 15.3 The Parties acknowledge that the Agreement is not a membership agreement as defined in paragraph 2 of Article 1110 of the Civil Code, i.e. an agreement the general conditions of which were removed from the negotiation. 15.4 The Parties declare that the provisions of the Agreement were negotiated in good faith in compliance with the binding provisions of Article 1104 of the Civil Code, and that pursuant to the provisions of Article 1112-1 of the same Code, all information the importance of which is a determining factor for the other party’s consent has been revealed, knowing that breaching the duty of information could invalidate it.