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► Full reference: M.-A. Frison-Roche, “En quoi le contrat fait part à la stratégie dans les entreprises saisies par la Compliance” (How Contracts Take Part in Strategy in Companies Seized by Compliance), in Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Université Paris Cité (Faculty of Law, Economics and Management – Centre de Droit des Affaires et de Gestion, CEDAG), Compliance et stratégies d’entreprise dans l’organisation contractuelle des chaînes de valeur (Compliance and corporate strategies in the contractual organisation of value chains), Malakoff, 12 November 2026. - 🧮read the full programme of the event 🏗️This colloquium is part of the 2026 cycle of colloquia Compliance and Contract. - ► Presentation of this conference: This intervention opens the colloquium, for which Marie-Anne Frison-Roche shares scientific responsibility with Étienne Maclouf, and which gives as much room to management science as to Law. “Value chains” have always existed, long before the legal system took hold of this reality, at once economic, financial and managerial; their entry into the legal order is recent, probably through the so-called “Vigilance” Act of 2017, and the expression now appears expressly in the texts of the European Union. Yet Law has always been present through the natural use of contract, an instrument of stability and organisation through which firms deploy their strategies. The introduction sets out the three questions that structure the colloquium: how do firms deploy and give value to their strategies through the contractual organisation of value chains? How do legal systems react, to a greater or lesser extent, to these strategies, depending on whether they know them and approve of them? And how can the firm’s strategy be articulated with the Monumental Goals underpinning Compliance Law when the contract becomes the instrument through which the firm implements its Compliance Obligation? - follow Marie-Anne Frison-Roche on LinkedIn follow Marie-Anne Frison-Roche on Instagram subscribe to the Newsletter MAFR Regulation, Compliance, Law subscribe to the Video Newsletter MAFR Surplomb subscribe to the Newsletter MaFR Droit & Art

► Full reference: M.-A. Frison-Roche, “Les nouveaux territoires du droit” (The new territories of Law), keynote in Conseil national des barreaux (CNB – French National Bar Council), Convention nationale des avocats 2026 (2026 National Lawyers’ Convention), plenary session 2 Ce qui nous tient : le droit comme promesse collective (What holds us together: Law as a collective promise), Toulouse, MEETT, 23 October 2026. - 🧮 This ten-minute talk is part of the second plenary session of the National Lawyers’ Convention, devoted to Law as a collective promise. - 🖥️ The slides supporting this conference will be posted shortly. - ► Presentation of this conference: What happens now happens within companies, including for issues that are not “economic”, with new interlocutors, the “stakeholders”, and with a primary concern: the future, that of systems and that of the human beings who live within them. The new territories of Law are those where decisions are formed and which Compliance Law grasps: governance, conformity and vigilance, sustainability, data, value chains and the new contractual engineering, reputational risks; wherever long-term decisions are made, where responsibilities are allocated, where credible commitments are made. Everyone sees new missions there, for managers, stakeholders, politicians, auditors, judges, lawyers, and even professors, but everyone also feels overwhelmed by unmanageable regulations (NIS 2, DORA, FCPA, DSA, Sapin II, DMA, CSRD…). Lawyers must be present in this ex ante space, to bring out the humanism on which these compliance corpora are founded, to help build lasting alliances enabling companies to play their part in the compliance ambitions, and to organise the new evidentiary culture of all parties, so that the flow of information is credible in amicable, pre-litigation and litigation relationships. This requires particular qualities from the lawyer entering this new territory, which leads from the ex ante towards a new kind of litigation. Law appears there as an alliance, and the lawyer as the one who creates the link so that the European ambition of Law as the cement of systems holds. - follow Marie-Anne Frison-Roche on LinkedIn follow Marie-Anne Frison-Roche on Instagram subscribe to the Newsletter MAFR Regulation, Compliance, Law subscribe to the Video Newsletter MAFR Surplomb subscribe to the Newsletter MaFR Droit & Art

► Full reference: M.-A. Frison-Roche, participation in the round table “L’avenir de la justice négociée : faut-il consolider et étendre la convention judiciaire d’intérêt public ?” (The future of negotiated justice: should the judicial public interest agreement be consolidated and extended?), in French National Assembly, colloquium 10 ans après la loi Sapin II. Quelles réformes pour relancer la lutte contre la corruption en France ? (10 years after the Sapin II Act. What reforms to revive the fight against corruption in France?), at the initiative of Raphaël Gauvain, at the invitation of Yaël Braun-Pivet, President of the National Assembly, and Vincent Caure, Chair of the Law Committee, Hôtel de Lassay, Paris, 20 October 2026. - 🧮 The round table takes place from 5 pm to 6.30 pm. It is chaired by Raphaël Gauvain, lawyer, former Member of Parliament, co-author of the evaluation report on the Sapin II Act. 🎤 The other speakers are: 🕴️François Ruffin, Member of Parliament for the Somme; 🕴️Alexis Werl, member of the Conseil national des barreaux (National Bar Council), partner at Ashurst; 🕴️Jérôme Simon, First Deputy Financial Prosecutor at the Parquet national financier (National Financial Prosecutor’s Office); 🕴️Céline Haye-Kiousis, President of the Association nationale des juristes de banque (National Association of Bank Lawyers), General Counsel of the BPCE group; 🕴️Astrid Mignon Colombet, partner at August Debouzy; 🕴️Jean-Philippe Foegle, in charge of negotiated justice issues at the Sherpa association. - ► Presentation of this conference: Ten years after the Sapin II Act of 9 December 2016, which created the judicial public interest agreement (convention judiciaire d’intérêt public, CJIP), the colloquium held at the National Assembly considers the reforms likely to revive the fight against corruption in France. The round table devoted to negotiated justice takes stock of the CJIP and outlines its prospects: its role in handling complex economic and financial cases, its articulation with individual prosecutions, and the conditions for a possible extension of negotiated justice. It takes the form of an exchange between the speakers, with a view to proposals. - follow Marie-Anne Frison-Roche on LinkedIn follow Marie-Anne Frison-Roche on Instagram subscribe to the Newsletter MAFR Regulation, Compliance, Law subscribe to the Video Newsletter MAFR Surplomb subscribe to the Newsletter MaFR Droit & Art

► Full reference: Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Université Paris Cité (Faculty of Law, Economics and Management – Centre de Droit des Affaires et de Gestion, CEDAG), Compliance et stratégies d’entreprise dans l’organisation contractuelle des chaînes de valeur (Compliance and corporate strategies in the contractual organisation of value chains), Malakoff, 12 November 2026, 4 pm – 7 pm. - 🏗️This colloquium is part of the 2026 cycle of colloquia “Compliance & Contract” organised by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and its partner Universities. - The colloquium is under the scientific responsibility of 🕴️Marie-Anne Frison-Roche and 🕴️Etienne Maclouf.   To register, on site or online: ….. - 🧮 The event will take place at Université Paris Cité, Faculty of Law, Economics and Management, Centre for Business Law and Management (CEDAG), 10, avenue Pierre-Larousse, 92240 Malakoff (France). - ► Presentation of the theme: “Value chains” have always existed, long before the legal system took hold of this reality, at once economic, financial and managerial, to bring it into the legal order. Their entry into it is recent, probably through the so-called “Vigilance” Act of 2017, the expression appearing in the preparatory works, while it is expressly referred to in the texts of the European Union. It is therefore a notion stemming from financial management, which developed alongside the very phenomenon of the firm and of trade, as a way of escaping the instability of the markets for goods and services. But Law has always been present through the natural use of contract. Contract thus came before the perspective of Compliance Law found its way into value chains, contract being an instrument of stability compared with the exchange contracts on which competitive markets are built, but also in those organisational contracts which regulate value chains and deploy the firm in its corporate form (“parent company”) and beyond its corporate form (“principal company”). Used in what might be called a “bare” way (a reference to the “nude pact” that contract constitutes when it is grasped by general law alone), contract has thus been the means for firms to deploy strategies through the organisation of value chains. The first aim of this colloquium is to show how this is done, and how it is valued, since the term “value” refers to the capacity to give value, in terms of return on investment, to such a contractual organisation. The legal system may remain more or less neutral towards these organisational contracts, which are so many “regulatory contracts”, either because it does not see them, or because it regards them as always beneficial and therefore as justifying neither specific regimes nor legislative or judicial intervention. It is then a matter of legislative or judge-made policy. The second aim of this colloquium is to show how legal systems react, to a greater or lesser extent, to these strategies, depending on whether they know them and whether they approve of them. The development of the law specific to this organisational strategy differs greatly from one area of the world to another, which creates considerable practical difficulties, because value chains are by nature structured in a unified way across the different areas of the world, for instance between Europe and the United States, and/or between Europe and Asia. By injecting regulation into these contracts, which are not governed by a single legal order, corporate strategies lose their stability. Yet stability is the very stake of corporate strategy in this field, and it is for this reason that contracts have been designed and adapted so as to differ from exchange contracts and to become the basis of the sustainability of value chains, which is today a major geopolitical issue. Moreover, and this is the third point of the colloquium, legislative provisions and case law are not hostile to contract, but they take it in another sense. Indeed, if one considers Europe (a position legally and politically contested in the United States, which calls for “deregulation” so as to return to contract as a “nude pact”), contract is rather taken as an instrument provided for by the texts to enable the firm subject to them to implement its Compliance Obligation. This raises no difficulty if the firm’s strategy matches the Monumental Goals that make up the normative foundation of the compliance corpus in question (e.g. DSA, DORA, GDPR, AI Act, CSRD, CS3D, etc.), but the articulation becomes more difficult, or even problematic, when the two strategies no longer match. One of the ambitions of this colloquium, which gives as much room to management science as to Law, is to seek how, in practice, these difficulties can be reduced. - 12 November 2026, 4 pm – 7 pm, Université Paris Cité, Faculty of Law, Economics and Management, Centre for Business Law and Management (CEDAG), 10, avenue Pierre-Larousse, 92240 Malakoff Compliance and corporate strategies in the contractual organisation of value chains 🎤 Welcome on behalf of the CEDAG research centre: 🕴️Pauline Pailler (to be confirmed), Professor of Private Law at Université Paris Cité, Director of the Centre for Business Law and Management (CEDAG), member of the Institut universitaire de France 🎤 How contract plays its part in strategy within companies seized by Compliance: 🕴️Marie-Anne Frison-Roche, Professor of Regulatory and Compliance Law, Director of the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and of the European School of Regulation and Compliance (EeRC) 🎤 Compliance issues in public service value chains: 🕴️Véronique Chanut, Professor of Management Science, Université Paris Panthéon-Assas, Director of LARGEPA and CIFFOP 🎤 Whistleblowers in value chains: contractualisation and compliance issues: 🕴️Guillaume Delalieux, Professor of Management Science (HDR), IAE La Rochelle, Director of the LITHORAL research centre 🎤 Emerging risks, sovereignty and vulnerabilities of value chains: 🕴️Rémy Février (to be confirmed), Professor of Management Science (HDR), Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (Cnam) 🎤 The dynamics of value chains in relation to compliance: 🕴️Etienne Maclouf, Professor of Management Science, Université Paris Cité, Faculty of Law, Economics and Management 🎤 title to be confirmed: 🕴️Stanislas Pottier, Senior Advisor to the General Management, Amundi 🎤 Conclusion of the colloquium: 🕴️Mathias Naudin (to be confirmed), Associate Professor (Maître de conférences) of Management Science, Université Paris Cité - The work of this colloquium will form the basis of a specific chapter in the books: 📕Compliance et Contrat (Compliance and Contract), forthcoming in the 📚Regulations & Compliance series, co-published by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Lefebvre-Dalloz.   - follow Marie-Anne Frison-Roche on LinkedIn follow Marie-Anne Frison-Roche on Instagram subscribe to the Newsletter MAFR Regulation, Compliance, Law subscribe to the Video Newsletter MAFR Surplomb subscribe to the Newsletter MaFR Droit & Art

► Full reference: M.-A. Frison-Roche, “Synthèse” (Synthesis), in Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Institut de recherche juridique de la Sorbonne (IRJS), Compliance et Droit commun des contrats (Compliance and General Contract Law), Paris, 7 October 2026. see on Instagram the carousel devoted to the conference (in French) - 🧮read the full programme of the event 🏗️This colloquium is part of the 2026 cycle of colloquia Compliance and Contract. - 🎤See the presentation of the other intervention made in this colloquium: Autonomie de la volonté, engagements et Compliance (Autonomy of will, commitments and Compliance). - 📝See also the newsletter devoted to this colloquium: Compliance et Droit commun des Contrats : mariage difficile, mariage prometteur (Compliance and General Contract Law: a difficult marriage, a promising marriage, in French). - ► Presentation of this conference: The synthesis closes the colloquium Compliance et Droit commun des contrats (Compliance and General Contract Law), organised by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and the Institut de recherche juridique de la Sorbonne (IRJS) of Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, under the scientific responsibility of Julia Heinich, Nicolas Bargue and Marie-Anne Frison-Roche. It draws together the contributions of the morning: the autonomy of will as the source of the contractual Compliance Obligation, the regulatory contracts generated by compliance (Jean-Baptiste Barbieri), the position of third parties to contracts with a compliance dimension (Philippe Stoffel-Munck) and the scope of contracts expressing the compliance imperative (Laurent Aynès), in order to bring out what general contract law brings to Compliance Law and what the latter asks of it in return. - follow Marie-Anne Frison-Roche on LinkedIn follow Marie-Anne Frison-Roche on Instagram subscribe to the Newsletter MAFR Regulation, Compliance, Law subscribe to the Video Newsletter MAFR Surplomb subscribe to the Newsletter MaFR Droit & Art

► Full reference: M.-A. Frison-Roche, “Autonomie de la volonté, engagements et Compliance” (Autonomy of will, commitments and Compliance), in Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Institut de recherche juridique de la Sorbonne (IRJS), Compliance et Droit commun des contrats (Compliance and General Contract Law), Paris, 7 October 2026. see on Instagram the carousel devoted to the conference (in French) see on Instagram the image announcing this lecture (in French) - 🧮read the full programme of the event 🏗️This colloquium is part of the 2026 cycle of colloquia Compliance and Contract. - 🖥️read the slides supporting this conference (in French) - 🎤See the presentation of the other intervention made in this colloquium: Synthèse (Synthesis). - 📝This conference will give rise to an article, “Autonomie de la volonté, engagements et Compliance”, to be published in the book 📕Compliance et Contrat (Compliance and Contract), in the series 📚Régulations & Compliance, co-published by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Lefebvre-Dalloz. - ► Presentation of this conference: Contract law, in its common rules expressed by the “general theory of contracts”, seems at first sight to be given little consideration when it comes to Compliance. Yet the “commitments” that punctuate the techniques and behaviours making up the “compliance culture” hold a central place in Compliance Law, without their place, let alone their equivalence with Contract, being settled. If one stops perceiving Compliance Law only through the prism of repression, the compliance obligation can be thought of as also having contract as a legitimate source, a contract whose source, in general law, is the autonomy of will and all its consequences. It is on the basis of this founding principle that this conference opens the colloquium. At the heart of Contract Law as of Compliance Law lies the will. But whose will? If the will of the Legislator shapes the obligation that companies implement, and if the Monumental Goals stem from the will of the Political power, companies would enter into them only as executors, and the contract would merely be a path taken by the law to apply more effectively: an arranged marriage. The conference proposes to link the compliance contract, or the compliance clause, not to the external will of a Legislator, but to the primary source of the contract: the autonomous wills of the contracting parties who exchange their consents, thus restoring to the autonomy of will its place as the source of the contractual Compliance Obligation. It first measures the concrete stake of designating this source, distinguishing three conceptions: the contract as the mouthpiece of the regulator, the contracting parties as the regulator’s “good soldiers”, and autonomous and convergent wills, which choose the ways and means of taking their part in the legal ambitions — Compliance chosen rather than Compliance endured. It then proposes to put an end to the current confusion between the force of regulation, the binding force of wills and the impetus of commitments, and finally to occupy the contractual sphere freely in order to develop a contractual Compliance system specific to each company. - follow Marie-Anne Frison-Roche on LinkedIn follow Marie-Anne Frison-Roche on Instagram subscribe to the Newsletter MAFR Regulation, Compliance, Law subscribe to the Video Newsletter MAFR Surplomb subscribe to the Newsletter MaFR Droit & Art

► Full reference: M.-A. Frison-Roche, “One always learns from Jean-Michel Darrois”, LinkedIn post, 6 October 2026. -

► Full reference: Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Institut de recherche juridique de la Sorbonne (IRJS) (Sorbonne Legal Research Institute), Compliance et Droit commun des contrats (Compliance and General Contract Law), 7 October 2026. see on Instagram the carousel devoted to the conference (in French) see on Instagram the programme of the conference (in French) - 🏗️ This symposium is part of the series of symposiums organised by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and its partner universities, focusing in 2026 on the general theme of Compliance and Contract. - The symposium is under the scientific responsibility of 🕴️Nicolas Bargue, Senior Lecturer (maître de conférences) at the Sorbonne Law School (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), co-director of the Contract, Civil Liability and Insurance Department of the IRJS, 🕴️Marie-Anne Frison-Roche, Professor of Law (agrégée des Facultés de Droit), Director of the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and of the European School of Regulation and Compliance (EeRC), and 🕴️Julia Heinich, Professor at the Sorbonne Law School (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne). - Registration with the IRJS: Registration for the symposium « Compliance et droit commun des contrats » of 7 October 2026 | Labo – IRJS - 🧮The symposium, organised by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and the Institut de recherche juridique de la Sorbonne (IRJS), will take place on Wednesday 7 October 2026, from 9:15 am to 1 pm, at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Room 6 of the Centre Panthéon, 12 place du Panthéon, 75005 Paris. It will be held in French. - Presentation of the topic: While Contract Law, in its common rules expressed by the “general theory of contracts”, is often considered to be the most developed branch of Law in practice and the most studied at university, at first glance it seems to be given little consideration when it comes to Compliance. The relationship between the contract and the documents, standards and ethical acts so numerous in Compliance techniques, to which is added the soft law produced by courts, regulators, supervisors and companies themselves, is an open question. Thus the “commitments” that punctuate the techniques and behaviours making up the “compliance culture” have a central place in Compliance Law; but their place, if not their equivalence with the Contract, is not established. To gain a firmer footing in the analysis of the practices of companies that insert compliance clauses into multiple contracts, to observe that Compliance can be the very subject of a specific contract — the “compliance contract” —, or even to assist in the conception that judges develop of their office when they hear contractual litigation involving Compliance, we must return to general Contract Law. If we stop viewing Compliance Law solely through the prism of repression, the Contract does not have the same place: the compliance obligation can be conceived as also having the contract as a legitimate source, a contract which, under general law, has its source in the autonomy of the will and all its consequences — contractual freedom, binding force, effect on third parties. This is the subject of this symposium which, following the classic diptych of formation and performance, takes up the contractual thread from the founding principles of autonomy and freedoms, binding force and its relativity, the meeting of wills, groups of contracts and regulatory contracts often drawn up to implement compliance policies. Specific performance and contractual liability under general law are themselves coloured in a singular way when a compliance concern has been inserted into the contract. - The proceedings of this symposium will form the basis of a specific chapter in the following publications: 📕Compliance et Contrat, forthcoming in the series 📚Régulations & Compliance, co-published by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Lefebvre-Dalloz. 📘Compliance and Contract, forthcoming in the 📚Compliance & Regulation Series, co-published by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Lefebvre-Bruylant. 🔻 See the programme below

► Full Reference : Cl. Brenner, Procédures civiles d’exécution (Civil Enforcement Procedures), 1st ed. 1998 – 13th ed., 2026, Dalloz, “Cours Dalloz-Série Droit privé” Series, 295 p. - ► General presentation of the book (written in French) : In the 13th edition of this textbook, up to date with the reform of the law of security interests, Claude Brenner sets out the rules on civil enforcement procedures as a complement to the Law of Obligations, since they make effective the binding force of contracts and the liability of persons. Up to date with all the successive reforms, this textbook makes it possible to understand the subject as a whole, in its common rules and in the specific procedures that have developed within it. The book is built in two titles, the first dealing with enforcement procedures, the second with distribution procedures. - 📚See the entire collection in which the book is published. - 📚Books in the collection directly related to this one : 🕴️N. Cayrol, 📕Procédure civile (Civil Procedure) 🕴️J.-B. Seube, 📕Droit des sûretés (Law of Security Interests) -

▶ click on the image to watch the episode on YouTube - ► Full reference: M.-A. Frison-Roche, “The Mystery of the Monumental Goals”, in series of drawn videos Compliance in Motion, episode 2, 2 October 2026 - ► Summary of this episode of Compliance in Motion: Students sit around a table; on the table, two books. Three words are given to them — Compliance Monumental Goals — and nobody really sees what that means. The Compliance Ogre, of course, is certain: “Me, me, me! I know what the Monumental Goals are!” And yet, it is no riddle. A Monumental Goal is an edifice: protecting the climate, stopping corruption, respecting others. Compliance Law does not merely forbid, it aims; and because the goal is monumental, no one builds it alone — the judge, the lawyer, the company, the teacher, each brings a stone. That is where Compliance Law draws its normativity, and that is what separates it from mere conformity. They are not decreed. They are built. At the end, the Ogre: “Yes, yes, yes — I said so!” He had not said so. Less than a minute, not a word spoken. One episode every two weeks, in French and in English. - 🌐 watch this episode of the series on YouTube: Compliance in Motion watch this episode of the series on Instagram: Compliance in Motion 🎬 watch this episode of the series below Compliance in Motion ⬇️ - Compliance in Motion, by mafr the series of drawn videos devoted to Compliance Law ComplianceTech® - follow Marie-Anne Frison-Roche on LinkedIn follow Marie-Anne Frison-Roche on Instagram subscribe to the Newsletter MAFR Regulation, Compliance, Law subscribe to the Video Newsletter MAFR Surplomb subscribe to the Newsletter MaFR Droit & Art

► Full reference: M.-A. Frison-Roche, « La clause d’audit corrélée à l’Obligation de Compliance » (The Audit Clause Correlated with the Compliance Obligation), in Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Centre de recherches Louis Josserand, La contractualisation de la Compliance : clause après clause (The Contractualisation of Compliance: Clause by Clause), Lyon, 25 September 2026. - 🧮view the full programme of the event 🏗️This colloquium is part of the 2026 cycle of colloquia Compliance and Contract. - 🚧This conference is based on a bilingual Working Paper: The Audit Clause, Carousel of the Contractualisation of Compliance. - 🖥️consult the slides supporting this lecture (these slides are in English; the slides projected during the lecture were the original French slides) - 🎤See the presentation of the other lecture given in this colloquium: Unicity and Diversity of Compliance Clauses. - 📘This conference will give rise to an article, “The Audit Clause Correlated with the Compliance Obligation”, to be published in the book 📘Compliance and Contract, in the 📚Compliance & Regulation series, co-published by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Bruylant. - ► Presentation of the conference: The audit clause is the most frequently cited and most common Compliance clause: it outsources internal control techniques onto a third party. A distinction must be drawn between the audit clause securing one’s own interests, the audit clause ensuring one’s own conformity and the audit clause carrying out a Compliance project. The audit clause then appears as the “necessary accessory” to the conformity and Compliance clause. It is the “objective reflection” of the legal Compliance Obligation, which requires “detecting” in order to act, and its “subjective reflection”, since the regulated party is in charge of those who, notably in value chains, are “concerned third parties”. In a first part, the conference places itself inside the audit clause. It shows how to draft it in order to obtain the relevant information from the persons who hold it and where it is located: designating in advance the information sought, the persons, documents and places, the event triggering the audit, periodic or linked to an event, who conducts it and its modalities, according to a criterion of proportionality between the extent of the information sought and the objective pursued. It also shows how to integrate from the drafting stage the limits and risks of this audit contractually imposed on others, notably with regard to the rights of the defence and the strategic use of the audit report. In a second part, the conference places itself outside the clause. The audit clause leans on other stipulations, conformity clause or Compliance clause, corporate relationships and governance techniques. Other clauses lean on it, in order to strike (dispute resolution, sanction and termination clauses) or to draw closer (remediation clause). The court will have to interpret it in the light of its purpose, as the “necessary accessory” to the application of Compliance Law. In conclusion, the Compliance audit clause appears as the carousel of the contractualisation of Compliance: where it is knotted, where conformity and Compliance are distinguished, where the judge contributes to the deployment of Compliance Law. - - follow Marie-Anne Frison-Roche on LinkedIn follow Marie-Anne Frison-Roche on Instagram subscribe to the Newsletter MAFR Regulation, Compliance, Law subscribe to the Video Newsletter MAFR Surplomb subscribe to the Newsletter MaFR Droit & Art

► Full reference: M.-A. Frison-Roche, « Unicité et Diversité des clauses de Compliance » (Unicity and Diversity of Compliance Clauses), in Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Centre de recherches Louis Josserand, La contractualisation de la Compliance : clause après clause (The Contractualisation of Compliance: Clause by Clause), Lyon, 25 September 2026. - 🧮read the full programme of the event (in French) 🏗️This colloquium is part of the 2026 cycle of colloquia Compliance and Contract. - 🚧This lecture is based on a bilingual Working Paper: Unicity and Diversity of Compliance Clauses: towards a Contractual Compliance System. - 🖥️consult the slides supporting this lecture (these slides are in English; the slides projected during the lecture were the original French slides) - 🎤See the presentation of the other lecture given in this colloquium: The Audit Clause Correlated with the Compliance Obligation. - 📝This lecture will give rise to an article, « Unicité et Diversité des clauses de Compliance », to be published in the book 📕Compliance and Contract, in the series 📚Compliance & Regulation, co-published by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Bruylant. - ► Presentation of this lecture : Practitioners insert into a wide variety of contracts clauses that are expressly designated as “Compliance clauses”. We lack a definition, so their legal regime is uncertain. To consolidate this practice and ensure that its development produces satisfactory effects, these clauses must be classified, named and distinguished from one another. This is what this lecture sets out to do. In a first stage, a strong unicity of Compliance clauses appears. But this unicity is somewhat misleading. It proceeds from a confusion between contract and statute: whether the clause, as a block, obliges the other contracting party to comply with all the regulations, or borrows its unity from the particular corpus of which it claims to be the tool of application, the clause copies the legislation. This is the unified but rather archaic conception to which the Regulator has itself lent credence, by designating the Compliance clause only as a delegation within a normative power that would remain first and foremost its own. So as not to stop there, in a second stage, the lecture shows the great diversity of Compliance clauses, a de jure diversity born of the principle of contractual freedom and a de facto diversity resulting from the porosity of the clause to the activities concerned, the country and the persons. To be mastered, this diversity must be channelled by a nomenclature. It must also be preserved in a lasting way, because it stems from the general policy of the company and the project it wishes to develop, for example in the value chains it has chosen to build through regulatory contracts. Nevertheless, and this is the subject of the third stage of the lecture, there is a deep and programmatic unicity of Compliance clauses, which lies in the systemic goals they serve. In practice, this unicity is built through an interlinked system of clauses, precisely described and specific to each undertaking. At the level of a large company, this can give rise to a Contractual Compliance System, which is articulated and allied with the regulatory system. - follow Marie-Anne Frison-Roche on LinkedIn follow Marie-Anne Frison-Roche on Instagram subscribe to the Newsletter MAFR Regulation, Compliance, Law subscribe to the Video Newsletter MAFR Surplomb subscribe to the Newsletter MaFR Droit & Art

► Full reference: Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and University Jean Moulin – Lyon 3, Centre de recherche Louis Josserand : La contractualisation de la compliance : clause après clause (Compliance and Contracts: clause by clause), 25 September 2026 see on Instagram the « Synthèse » carousel devoted to the conference (in French) - 🏗️ This symposium is part of the series of symposiums organised by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and its partner universities, focusing in 2023 on the general theme of Compliance and Contracts. - The symposium is under the scientific responsibility of Marie-Anne Frison-Roche and Jean-Christophe Roda. Il will be held in French. - To register: 🧮The event will take place at the University of Jean Moulin – Lyon 3. - Presentation of the topic:  There are numerous compliance clauses. Surprisingly little research has been done on them, which hinders the development of this practice. However, the Compliance Obligation that is so often emphasised in relation to civil liability no doubt because Compliance Law is excessively associated with sanctions, can just as easily originate from contracts and multiple clauses, since this is another way of being bound, without it being anything more than a means for the persons thus bound to fulfil their regulatory obligation. It is therefore practice that has developed compliance clauses, the very existence of which is the subject of this symposium. By highlighting these provisions, their originality can be revealed, as well as the uniqueness conferred on them by Compliance Law and the diversity that may be required depending on criteria related to the purpose of the clauses, but also to the sector of activity or the identity of the contracting parties themselves. From this already established practice, it is certainly the Judge who will determine its uniqueness and specificity. This case law is in its infancy because this practice is the result of compliance requirements arising from an emerging branch of Law, which is still under development. Furthermore, the clauses examined here are not conceived from scratch, but are often adaptations of clauses familiar to lawyers, and as such may be reproduced, regulated, or even restricted or prohibited by rules that fall not only under general Contract Law, but also, clause by clause under Competition Law, Distribution Law, Consumer Law, Judicial and Procedural Law, or Private International law. The logic of Compliance Law, when it takes contractual form, does not always prevail and, in the same way that Compliance Law as a branch of Law is linked to other branches, compliance clauses, if they are to multiply and become more sophisticated, must be subject to this link. x - The proceedings of this symposium will form the basis of a specific chapter in the following publications: 📕Compliance et Contrat, to be published in French in the collection 📚Regulations & Compliance, co-published by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Lefebvre-Dalloz. 📘Compliance and Contract, to be published in English in the 📚Compliance & Regulation Serie, co-published by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Bruylant (Larcier-Intersentia).   🔻 Read the schedule for the event below ⤵️  

► Full Reference : V. Magnier, Droit des sociétés (Company Law), 1st ed. 2002 – 12th ed., 2026, Dalloz, “Cours Dalloz-Série Droit privé” Series, 557 p. - ► General presentation of the book (written in French) : This book provides easy access to an understanding of the subject: it starts from the general rules common to all companies and then moves on to the rules specific to particular companies (SA, SARL, SCI, general partnerships, etc.). This twelfth edition deals, in a first part, with « the general law of companies », including the company contract and the legal personality of the company, then turns, in a second part, to « the special law of companies », with partnerships, limited liability companies and joint-stock companies, and ends with the subject of « groups of companies ». - 📚From the same business law perspective, see also : 🕴️Ph. Neau-Leduc & al., 📕Droit bancaire (Banking Law) 🕴️S. Piédelièvre, 📕Droit commercial (Commercial Law) 🕴️G. Beaussonie, 📕Droit pénal des affaires (Business Criminal Law) 🕴️S. Piédelièvre, 📕Instruments de crédit et de paiement (Credit and Payment Instruments) 🕴️F. Gaudu & F. Bergeron, 📕Droit du travail (Labour Law) - 📚See the entire collection in which the book is published. -

▶ click on the image to watch the episode on YouTube - ► Full reference: M.-A. Frison-Roche, “Leaving Conformity Behind”, in series of drawn videos Compliance in Motion, episode 1, 25 September 2026 - ► Summary of this episode of Compliance in Motion: Less than a minute, not a word spoken. A man is buried under files: he complies, with every regulation, every one of them. Then the machine takes his place and does better than he can — it files, it drafts, it will write the contracts, the judgments, the law. Above him stands the Compliance Ogre, who knows only one sentence: “Obey, or I will punish you!” If conformity were the goal of Compliance Law, the matter would be settled: the algorithm would achieve it better than we can. But that is not the goal. Compliance Law was invented to preserve the systems in which human beings live. Its Monumental Goals are its legal foundation; it is through them that it is distinguished from conformity, which is only its instrument. Leaving conformity behind is therefore not leaving Law behind: it is entering it. One episode every two weeks, in French and in English. The series also has its Instagram account: mafr.compliancetech. - 🌐 watch this episode of the series on YouTube: Compliance in Motion watch this episode of the series on LinkedIn: Compliance in Motion 🎬 watch this episode of the series below Compliance in Motion ⬇️ - Compliance in Motion, by mafr the series of drawn videos devoted to Compliance Law ComplianceTech® - follow Marie-Anne Frison-Roche on LinkedIn follow Marie-Anne Frison-Roche on Instagram subscribe to the Newsletter MAFR Regulation, Compliance, Law subscribe to the Video Newsletter MAFR Surplomb subscribe to the Newsletter MaFR Droit & Art

► Full Reference : X. Pin, Droit pénal général 2027 (General Criminal Law 2027), 18th ed., 2026, Dalloz, “Cours Dalloz-Série Droit privé” Series, 775 p. - ► General presentation of the book (written in French) : The new 2027 edition of this book, up to date with the latest reforms, first deals with the « criminal law » in its determination and application; it then deals with « the offence », its characterisation and its attribution, and ends, in a third part, with « the penalty », distinguishing between the penalty incurred, the penalty imposed and the penalty enforced. - 📚See the entire collection in which the book is published. - 📚Books in the collection directly related to this one : 🕴️Ch. André, 📕Droit pénal spécial (Special Criminal Law) 🕴️É. Verny, 📕Procédure pénale (Criminal Procedure) 🕴️G. Beaussonie, 📕Droit pénal des affaires (Business Criminal Law) -

► Full Reference : B. Haftel, Droit international privé (Private International Law), 4th ed., 2026, Lefebvre-Dalloz, “Cours Dalloz-Série Droit privé” Series, 425 p. - ► General presentation of the book (written in French) : The book comprises a general part, devoted to conflicts of laws and conflicts of jurisdictions, and then a special part. The latter covers the application of Private International Law to persons (« personal status »), to property, to obligations and to family property law. - 📚See the entire collection in which the book is published. The subject of Private International Law had previously been covered in this collection by a book written by Daniel Gutmann. - 📚Books in the collection directly related to this one : 🕴️J.-B. Racine, F. Siiriainen, S. Menétrey, 📕Droit du commerce international (International Trade Law) -

► Full Reference : F. Bergeron, Droit du travail 2027 (Labour Law 2027), 13th ed., 2026, Lefebvre-Dalloz, “Cours Dalloz-Série Droit privé” Series, 726 p. - ► General presentation of the book (written in French) : This textbook, up to date with the latest texts, is intended for all law students and all practitioners updating their knowledge. In a first part it develops « individual employment relations » (formation of the contractual relationship, performance and termination of the employment contract), devoting its second part to « collective employment relations » (collective labour disputes, employee representation, collective bargaining and collective agreements). - 📚See the entire collection in which the book is published. - 📚Books in the collection directly related to this one : 🕴️F. Kessler and V. Roulet, 📕Droit de la protection sociale (Social Protection Law) 🕴️V. Magnier, 📕Droit des sociétés (Company Law) -

► Full Reference : Ph. Pétel, Procédures collectives (Insolvency Proceedings), 1st ed. 1996 – 12th ed., 2026, Dalloz, “Cours Dalloz-Série Droit privé” Series, 277 p. - ► General presentation of the book (written in French) : The 12th edition of this reference textbook, one of whose many merits is its controlled length (277 airy, easy-to-read pages), presents this very technical subject by distinguishing first the opening of insolvency proceedings and then describing their course. Once considered shameful under the name of « bankruptcy law », the law of « insolvency proceedings » (procédures collectives) has been, since 1967, a law protecting the enterprise, aimed at preventing its difficulties, at its safeguard and its recovery, its liquidation and its sale being only the last resort. This concern has been further strengthened by the influence of economic theory. - 📚In the same collection, see the Courses directly related to it : 🕴️V. Magnier, 📕Droit des sociétés (Company Law) 🕴️J.-B. Seube, 📕Droit des sûretés (Law of Security Interests) 📚See the entire collection, Cours Dalloz – Droit privé, based on a concept proposed by Marie-Anne Frison-Roche in 1992, in which the book is published. -

► Full Reference : S. Piédelièvre, Droit commercial (Actes de commerce – Commerçants – Fonds de commerce – Concurrence – Consommation) (Commercial Law: Commercial Acts – Traders – Business Assets – Competition – Consumer Affairs), 1st ed. 1997 – 15th ed., 2026, Dalloz, “Cours Dalloz-Série Droit privé” Series, 466 p. - ► General presentation of the book (written in French) : This book, intended mainly for second- and third-year undergraduate students, offers a clear and detailed approach to the notion of commerciality. It will also be of interest to practitioners wishing to update their knowledge of commercial law. Complex in the French system, this notion raises many questions calling for concrete solutions of great importance, such as the rules on jurisdiction and evidence. The book approaches commercial law through commercial acts, traders, business assets, as well as competition and consumer affairs. The author has set out to present the rules that constitute the principles of commercial activity. - 📕Read the back cover (in French) - 📕Read the table of contents (in French) - 📚See the entire collection in which the book is published. - 📚Books in the collection directly related to this one : 🕴️V. Magnier, 📕Droit des sociétés (Company Law) 🕴️J.-D. Pellier, 📕Droit de la consommation (Consumer Law) 🕴️M. Véron and G. Beaussonie, 📕Droit pénal des affaires (Business Criminal Law) -