The authority of a general agent includes: 1, prosecution and responding; 2. Apply for property preservation, evidence preservation and prior execution; 3. Provide evidence to the courts and arbitration institutions, and ask witnesses, experts and inspectors; 4. Express institutional opinions; 5. Apply for execution on your behalf. General agent refers to an agent who does not enjoy the exclusive agency franchise, that is, the principal can entrust several agents to represent the principal in the same area and within the same period of time. The general agent collects commission from the client according to the actual quantity of goods sold and the way and proportion stipulated in the agreement, so it is also called commission agent. Features of general agent: 1. The agent engages in local commercial activities on behalf of the principal and collects a certain commission after the transaction; 2. The entrusting party can often have several general agents in a certain area; 3. The entrusting party has the right to conduct business activities beyond the scope of the general agent in its agency area without paying commission to the general agent; As the general agent does not enjoy the exclusive agency franchise, it does not undertake the obligation to sell a certain number of goods within a certain period of time.

Article 161 of the Civil Code of People's Republic of China (PRC) stipulates that a civil subject may carry out a civil juristic act through an agent. In accordance with the provisions of the law, the agreement of the parties or the nature of civil legal acts, civil legal acts that should be implemented by themselves shall not be represented. Article 162 A civil juristic act carried out by an agent in the name of the principal within the scope of his agency authority is effective for the principal.

The difference between risk agency and general agency

Details are as follows: 1. General agents have no special restrictions on the scope of cases, while risk agents cannot represent certain types of cases; 2. The cases involved in risk agency are usually risky, often more difficult and complicated than general agency, and may have the characteristics of losing the case and being difficult to execute; General agency includes ordinary cases; 3. Under the risk agency, the client pays the lawyer's fee according to the agreed proportion, and the cost is high; The general agency fee is relatively low; 4. Under the risk agency, the client has greater trust in the lawyer, and the lawyer has greater authority to dispose of the substantive rights and interests of the case; Under the general agency, the lawyer's disciplinary authority is relatively small.