Reports

► 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 -

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. 

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)

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  

Full reference: Serious Fraud Office, Operational Handbook about Deferred Prosecution Agreements, October 2020 Read the Operational Handbook

Full reference: Financial Stability Board, The Use of Supervisory and Regulatory Technology by Authorities and Regulated Institutions. Market Developments and Stability Implications, Report of 9th of October 2020, 36 p.  Read the report Read the presentation of the report by the Financial Stability Board To go further on the question of the use of new technologies in regulatory processes, read Marie-Anne Frison-Roche's working paper: Analysis of blockchains with regards with the uses they can fulfill and the functions that the ministerial officers must ensure  

Full reference: Baer, B., Proposals to Strengthen the Antitrust Laws and Restore Competition Online, Testimony before the United-States House of Representatives, Committee on Judiciary, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law, 1st of October 2020 Read the testimony Read Bill Baer's presentation by Brookings Institution of which he is a member

Full reference of the guidelines: Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), Délibération n°2020-091 du 17 septembre 2020 portant adoption de lignes directrices relatives à l'application de l'article 82 de la loi du 6 janvier 1978 modifiée aux opérations de lecture et écriture dans le terminal d'un utilisateur (notamment aux "cookies et autres traceurs") et abrogeant la délibération n°2019-093 du 4 juillet 2019  Full reference of the recommendation: Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), Délibération n°2020-092 du 17 septembre 2020 portant adoption d'une recommandation proposant des modalités pratiques de mise en conformité en cas de recours aux "cookies et autres traceurs".  Read the guidelines (in French) Read the recommendation (in French) Read the presentation of these guilines and of this recommendation by the CNIL (in French)  Read Marie-Anne Frison-Roche's comment about this in the Newsletter MAFR – Law, Regulation & Compliance of 1st of October 2020

Full reference: Giuliani-Viallard, A., The Europe of Compliance, at the heart of tomorrow's world. For a transformation of our European businesses and the upturn in their international competitiveness, European Issue, n°572, policy paper from the Robert Schuman Foundation, 28th of September 2020, 3 p. Read the policy paper

Full reference: Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, The European Economic and social committee and the Committee of the regions, A Capital Markets Union for people and businesses-new action plan, COM/2020/590 final Read the new action plan

Full reference: Agence Française Anticorruption (French anticorruption agency), Département de l'appui aux acteurs économiques (Support to economic actors department), La politique cadeaux et invitations dans les entreprises, les EPIC, les associations et les fondations (Gifts and invitations policy for firms, public firms, associations and fondations), Guide pratique 2020 (Practical Guide 2020), 11th of September 2020, 14 p. Read the practical guide in French

Full reference: Perben, D., Rapport relatif à la profession d'avocat (written in French), Report to the French Minister of Justice, July 2020, 42p. Read the report

Full reference: Report of Group of Thirty, Digital Currencies and Stablecoins : Risks, Opportunities and Challenges Ahead, July 2020, 48p. Read the Report

Full reference: Faure-Muntian, Valeria and Fasquelle, Daniel, Information Report of the Commission des Affaires économiques (committee on economic affairs) on digital platforms, Assemblée National (National Assembly), June 2020, 104p. Read the Report

Full reference: Rapport sur la responsabilité des sociétés et de leurs dirigeants en matière sociale et environnementale et examens des conséquences juridiques associées aux modifications apportées à l'article 1833 et 1835 du Code Civil, Haut Comité Juridique de la Place Financière de Paris, 19th of June 2020 Read the report