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Reports

📓Report of the Committee on Legal affairs of the European Parliament on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence and amending Directive (EU) 2019/1937

► Full Reference: Committee on Legal Affairs of the European Parliament, Report on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence and amending Directive (EU) 2019/1937, 8 May 2023. - 📓read the report -
European Union European Directive Vigilance

Books

Agence française anticorruption - AFA (French Anti-Corruption Agency) and Parquet national financier - PNF (French National Financial Prosecutor's Office))

📜Internal anti-corruption investigations. Practical Guide

► Full Reference: Agence française anticorruption – AFA (French Anti-Corruption Agency) and Parquet national financier – PNF (French National Financial Prosecutor's Office), Internal anti-corruption investigations. Practical Guide, march 2023.  - 📜read the guide -  
Corruption Soft law French Anticorruption Agency Internal Investigation French National Financial Prosecutor’s Office

Articles

Lignes directrices Parquet National Financier sur la mise en oeuvre de la convention judiciaire d’intérêt public

► Full Reference: Parquet national financier – PNF (National Financial Prosecutor's Office), Lignes directrices sur la mise en oeuvre de la convention judiciaire d'intérêt public (Guidelines on the implementation of the judicial public interest agreement (CJIP)), 16 January 2023. - ► Read the guidelines (in French) ► Read a free translation of the original French document for information purposes -  
Intellectual property

Articles

🏛️Autorité de la concurrence - ADLC (French Competition Authority)

📜Framework document of 23 May 2022 on competition compliance programmes

► Full Reference: Autorité de la concurrence – ADLC (French Competition Authority), Framework document of 23 May 2022 on competition compliance programmes, 2022 - 📜read the framework document - 📜read the french version of the framework document : Document-cadre du 24 mai 2022 sur les programmes de conformité aux règles de concurrence -
Competition law Compliance Program Compliance Law

Reports

Rapport d’information sur l’évaluation de la loi du 27 mars 2017 relative au devoir de vigilance des sociétés mères et des entreprises donneuses d’ordre

► Full reference: C. Dubost and D. Potier, Commission des lois constitutionnelles, de la législation et de l’administration générale de la République, Rapport d'information sur l’évaluation de la loi du 27 mars 2017 relative au devoir de vigilance des sociétés mères et des entreprises donneuses d’ordre, 24th February 2022, 100 p. - ► Read the report (in french)  -
Parent company Vigilance

Reports

BAYROU, François

Électricité: le devoir de lucidité (Electricity: the duty of lucidity)

Full reference: Bayrou, F., Electricité: le devoir de lucidité (Electricity: the duty of lucidity), note n°4 from the Haut-Commissariat au Plan (French government planification agency), 23rd of March 2021, 37 p.   Read the note (in French) Read the summary of the note done by the Haut-Commissariat au Plan on is official website (in French)
Politics Electricity Energy Regulatory law Monumental Goal Compliance Law

Reports

Agence française anticorruption - AFA (French Anti-corruption Agency)

📜The French Anti-Corruption Agency Guidelines. Notice on the French Anti-corruption Agency Guidelines to help public and private sector entities to prevent and detect bribery, influence peddling, extorsion by public officials, illegal taking of interest, misappropriation of public funds and favoritism

► Full Reference: Agence française anticorruption – AFA (French Anti-corruption Agency), The French Anti-Corruption Agency Guidelines. Notice on the French Anti-corruption Agency Guidelines to help public and private sector entities to prevent and detect bribery, influence peddling, extorsion by public officials, illegal taking of interest, misappropriation of public funds and favoritism, January 12, 2021 - 📜Read the guidelines -
Corruption French Anticorruption Agency Recommandation

Reports

AMF (French financial markets authority) and AFM (Dutch financial markets authority)

Position paper : Call for a European Regulation for the provision of ESG data, rating, and relate services

Full reference: AMF / AFM, Position paper : Call for a European Regulation for the provision of ESG data, rating, and relate services, 15th of December 2020  Read the press release by AMF In this document, AMF and AFM analyses the perspective to supervise ESG rating agencies and the perspective to make ESMA supervisor of these agencies. 
Financial Market Authority Supervision Rating Agency ESMA

Reports

CHAPRON, Jean-Paul, DUBOST, Coralie and IMALHAYENE, Fella

Labels RSE. Accompagner les entreprises et donner confiance à leurs parties prenantes (CSR labels. Support companies and give confidence to their stakeholders)

Full reference: Chapron, J.-P., Dubost, C. and  Imalhayene, F., Labels RSE. Accompagner les entreprises et donner confiance à leurs parties prenantes (CSR labels. Support companies and give confidence to their stakeholders), Report submitted to the French Minister of Economy and Finances, 30th of November 2020, 81p.   Read the report (in French) Read the synthesis of the observations and recommendations of this report by the Secretary to social, solidarity and responsible economy (in French)
Business RSE Guidance

Reports

US Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC)

Whistleblower Program

Full reference: US Securities and Exchanges Commission, Whistleblower Program. 2020 Annual Report to Congress, 16th of November 2020 Read the report   Read, to go further on the question of whistleblowers: Frison-Roche, M.-A., The impossible unicity of the legal category of whistleblowers, working paper, 2019  
Financial law Bank regulation Financial market Financial regulation Regulatory law Whistleblower Compliance Law