{"id":113693,"date":"2025-08-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mafr.fr\/actualites\/droit-de-la-compliance-et-contentieux-systemique-2\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T11:51:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T11:51:49","slug":"compliance-law-systemic-litigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mafr.fr\/en\/publications\/working-papers\/compliance-law-systemic-litigation\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udea7Compliance Law and Systemic Litigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><strong>1<\/strong>.&nbsp;<em><strong>A new foundation has created a new branch of Law: Compliance Law<\/strong><\/em>\u2693Legal systems have changed, and Compliance Law in its uniqueness reflects this change and plays a powerful part in it. Through new blocks of compliance rules, particularly at European level, such as data protection (GDPR), anti-money laundering (AMLA), protection of the climate balance (CS3D), sustainability of banking and financial systems (Banking Union), etc., many legal compliance techniques (always the same\ud83d\udcce<sup class=\"mafr-note\" data-note=\"1\"><a href=\"#\" role=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mafr-note-113693-1\">1<\/a><\/sup><span class=\"mafr-note__texte\" id=\"mafr-note-113693-1\" role=\"tooltip\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span><a href=\"\/en\/about\/presentation\/\">M.-A. Frison-Roche&nbsp;<\/a>(dir.),<em>&nbsp;<\/em><span style=\"font-size:16px\">\ud83d\udcd8<\/span><em><a href=\"\/activites\/directions-editoriales\/direction-de-la-collection-regulations-compliance-jorc-dalloz\/parution-outils-de-la-compliance-2021\/\">Compliance Tools<\/a>,&nbsp;<\/em>2021.<\/span>) have been developed and imposed on large companies which must establish and handle them: alert, mapping, assessment, programme, etc,. These new regulatory blocks only make sense in relation to their &quot;Monumental Goals&quot;\ud83d\udcce<sup class=\"mafr-note\" data-note=\"2\"><a href=\"#\" role=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mafr-note-113693-2\">2<\/a><\/sup><span class=\"mafr-note__texte\" id=\"mafr-note-113693-2\" role=\"tooltip\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span><a href=\"\/en\/about\/presentation\/\">M.-A. Frison-Roche&nbsp;<\/a>(dir.),<em>&nbsp;<\/em><span style=\"font-size:16px\">\ud83d\udcd8<\/span><a href=\"\/activites\/directions-editoriales\/direction-de-la-collection-compliance-regulation-jorc-et-bruylant\/parution-compliance-monumental-goals\/\"><em>Compliance Monumental Goals<\/em><\/a>, 2023.&nbsp;<\/span>: the goal in Ex Ante is to detect systemic risks and prevent crises so that the systems in question do not collapse, so that they &quot;sustain&quot;. All the legal instruments of these corpus of legal rules and decisions in question are normatively anchored in these Monumental Goals, which are the active unifying core of Compliance Law (<span style=\"color:rgb(178, 34, 34)\"><strong>I<\/strong><\/span>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The courts are the guardians of this new and highly ambitious regulatory framework, which relies on the practical ability of companies to implement it (<span style=\"color:#B22222\"><strong>II<\/strong><\/span>). They&nbsp;ensure&nbsp;that the technical provisions are applied teleologically in each of these compliance blocks and that these regulatory corpus&nbsp;support each other, since it is always the same systemic goal that is served through the &quot;Compliance Obligation&quot;\ud83d\udcce<sup class=\"mafr-note\" data-note=\"3\"><a href=\"#\" role=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mafr-note-113693-3\">3<\/a><\/sup><span class=\"mafr-note__texte\" id=\"mafr-note-113693-3\" role=\"tooltip\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span><a href=\"\/en\/about\/presentation\/\">M.-A. Frison-Roche&nbsp;<\/a>(dir.),&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size:16px\">\ud83d\udcd8<\/span><em><a href=\"\/activites\/directions-editoriales\/direction-de-la-collection-regulations-compliance-jorc-dalloz\/parution-obligation-de-compliance\/\">Compliance Obligation<\/a>,&nbsp;<\/em>2026<\/span>&nbsp;to which companies are subject: to ensure that the systems (banking, financial, climate, digital, energy, etc.) do not collapse, that they are sustainable, and that the present and future human beings involved in them are not crushed by them but, on the contrary, benefit from them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">This unity is still little perceived, in particular because the myriad of changing regulatory provisions pulverises the simplicity and profound unity of Compliance Law. Entrusting the &quot;regulatory mass&quot; to algorithms increases this pulverisation, bringing together knowledge in silos, corpus by corpus, which makes the whole ever more incomprehensible and therefore impossible to handle since Interregulation in practice takes place\ud83d\udcce<sup class=\"mafr-note\" data-note=\"4\"><a href=\"#\" role=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mafr-note-113693-4\">4<\/a><\/sup><span class=\"mafr-note__texte\" id=\"mafr-note-113693-4\" role=\"tooltip\" tabindex=\"-1\">On this &quot;interregulation&quot;, which is required as soon as the State no longer operates by centralising power, while sectoral organisations naturally generate&nbsp;this interregulation, see<span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span><a href=\"\/en\/about\/presentation\/\">M.-A. Frison-Roche<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"\/publications\/articles\/articles-publication-collective-juridique\/21-lhypothese-de-linterregulation\/\">L&#39;hypoth&egrave;se de l&#39;interr&eacute;gulation (&quot;the hypothesis of the &quot;interregulation&quot;)<\/a>,<span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span>M.-A. Frison-Roche (dir.), \ud83d\udcd5<a href=\"\/activites\/directions-editoriales\/responsabilites-editoriales-anterieures\/direction-de-la-collection-droit-et-economie-de-la-regulation-aux-presses-de-sciences-po-et-aux-editions-dalloz\/parution-risques-de-regulation\/\"><em>Les risques de r&eacute;gulation(&quot;Regulation Risks&quot;)<\/em><\/a>, 2005.<br \/><br \/>\r\n\r\nInterregulation is facilitated and increased by Compliance Law because of the internalisation of rules applied by operators which&nbsp;are themselves multi-sectoral and articulate within themselves several sectoral regulat, thus reconstituting a centralisation with which the traditional State had broken away, while going beyond the borders within which it is limited in principle. On this movement, which increases the sovereign power of States, see \ud83d\udd74\ufe0fM.-A. Frison-Roche , \ud83d\udcd3<a href=\"\/publications\/rapports-officiels\/lapport-du-droit-de-la-compliance-dans-la-gouverna\/\"><em>L&#39;apport du droit de la compliance &agrave; la gouvernance d&#39;Internet (&quot;The contribution of Compliance Law to the Governance of Internet&quot;)<\/em><\/a>, report to the French Government, 2019 (<a href=\"\/publications\/rapports-officiels\/lapport-du-droit-de-la-compliance-dans-la-gouverna\/\">see the English summary<\/a>).<\/span>. Recognising instead the Judge&#39;s place, i.e. at the centre\ud83d\udcce<sup class=\"mafr-note\" data-note=\"5\"><a href=\"#\" role=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mafr-note-113693-5\">5<\/a><\/sup><span class=\"mafr-note__texte\" id=\"mafr-note-113693-5\" role=\"tooltip\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span><a href=\"\/en\/about\/presentation\/\">M.-A. Frison-Roche<\/a>,&nbsp;<span style=\"color:rgb(6, 22, 34); font-size:16px\">\ud83d\udcdd<\/span><a href=\"\/publications\/articles\/articles-jorc\/never-exclude-judges-and-lawyers-in-compliance-law\/\">Reinforce the Judge and the Lawyer to impose Compliance Law as a characteristic of the Rule of Law<\/a>,&nbsp;<em>in<\/em>&nbsp;<span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span><a href=\"\/en\/about\/presentation\/\">M.-A. Frison-Roche&nbsp;<\/a>(dir.),<em>&nbsp;<\/em><span style=\"font-size:16px\">\ud83d\udcd8<\/span><em><a href=\"\/activites\/directions-editoriales\/direction-de-la-collection-compliance-regulation-jorc-et-bruylant\/parution-compliance-jurisdictionalisation\/\">Compliance Jurisdictionalisation<\/a><\/em>, 2024<\/span> makes it possible to master this new branch of Law. But the Judge has an even more important role in what is, by transitivity, a &quot;Systemic Litigation&quot;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><strong>2<\/strong>.&nbsp; <span style=\"color:#0000FF\"><em><strong>The&nbsp;transmission of the systemic object of Compliance Law to litigation<\/strong><\/em><\/span><span style=\"color:#0000CD\"><em><strong> <\/strong><\/em><\/span>\u2693 Indeed, the Litigation that emerges from the new Compliance Law&nbsp;is also fundamentally new, and this by Transitivity. The Normative Goal of Compliance Law is to make systems sustainable (or robust, or resilient, the vocabulary varies, the goal being the same). The result is disputtes which are&nbsp;always &quot;Systemic Litigation&quot; (<span style=\"color:#B22222\"><strong>III<\/strong><\/span>). The place and role of everyone have been transformed (<span style=\"color:#B22222\"><strong>IV<\/strong><\/span>).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"color:#B22222\"><strong>I. THE REGULATORY BLOCKS OF COMPLIANCE TAKE ON MEANING AND UNITY THROUGH THEIR NORMATIVE ANCHORING IN THEIR MONUMENTAL GOALS OF SYSTEM SUSTAINABILITY&nbsp;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><strong>3. <span style=\"color:#0000FF\"><em>The unmanageable mass of compliance blocks<\/em><\/span> <\/strong>\u2693 It is generally agreed that &quot;Compliance Law&quot;\ud83d\udcce<sup class=\"mafr-note\" data-note=\"6\"><a href=\"#\" role=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mafr-note-113693-6\">6<\/a><\/sup><span class=\"mafr-note__texte\" id=\"mafr-note-113693-6\" role=\"tooltip\" tabindex=\"-1\">sans s&#39;arr&ecirc;ter &agrave; la question de la d&eacute;finition du Droit de la Compliance, question qui est pertinente mais qui est trait&eacute;e dans d&#39;autres travaux. Voir d&#39;une fa&ccedil;on initiale&nbsp;<span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span><a href=\"\/en\/about\/presentation\/\">M.-A. Frison-Roche<\/a>,\ud83d\udcdd&nbsp;<a href=\"\/publications\/chroniques\/chroniques-mafr-droit-de-la-compliance\/le-droit-de-la-compliance-2\/\">Le droit de la compliance<\/a>, 2016.&nbsp;<\/span> covers what can be described as &quot;blocks&quot;. It is by metonymy that they are referred to as &quot;regulations&quot;. It is a perspective to&nbsp;associate&nbsp;with each&nbsp; ambition a set of laws, directives, etc., and above all soft law, decisions of various authorities, case law, doctrines of economic and financial places, etc. For example, when we talk about the &quot;GDPR&quot;, we are referring to the entire body of legislation, decisions and doctrine by which companies must ensure the protection of personal data. The complaint is almost universal about the uncertainty surrounding the handling of all these provisions. The protest is not so much about the principle of compliance itself, against which there is a call for &#39;deregulation&#39;, but rather about this &#39;mille-feuille&#39; of a thousand provisions, a thousand interpretations for each one and a thousand interferences between each block. One sighs at the legal insecurity and uncertainty, and rightly so, because these blocks of compliance are said to be &quot;unmanageable&quot;: Compliance Law&nbsp;should therefore be done away with, not on principle (because the Monumental Goals being pursued are approved) but because of these technical forms that are unmanageable by the companies subject to them and by the individuals concerned\ud83d\udcce<sup class=\"mafr-note\" data-note=\"7\"><a href=\"#\" role=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mafr-note-113693-7\">7<\/a><\/sup><span class=\"mafr-note__texte\" id=\"mafr-note-113693-7\" role=\"tooltip\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span><a href=\"\/en\/about\/presentation\/\">M.-A. Frison-Roche<\/a>,&nbsp;<span style=\"color:rgb(6, 22, 34); font-size:16px\">\ud83d\udcdd<\/span><a href=\"\/?p=113152\">&quot;Obligation upon Obligation work&quot;<\/a>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>in<\/em>&nbsp;<span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span><a href=\"\/en\/about\/presentation\/\">M.-A. Frison-Roche&nbsp;<\/a>(dir.),&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size:16px\">\ud83d\udcd8<\/span><em><a href=\"\/activites\/directions-editoriales\/direction-de-la-collection-regulations-compliance-jorc-dalloz\/parution-obligation-de-compliance\/\">Compliance Obligation<\/a>,&nbsp;<\/em>2026<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><strong>4. <span style=\"color:#0000FF\"><em>Not admitting the unmanageability of compliance blocks without transferring them to algorithms, remedies worse than the evil <\/em><\/span><\/strong>\u2693 Since it seems to be unanimously agreed that it is impossible to apprehend line by line within each compliance block the content of what one is obliged to do and that this unmanageable nature is unacceptable, in particular because of the sanctions that are nonetheless incurred, if one does not want to conclude that the fight against corruption, harmful climate change, etc. must therefore be abolished, the solution most often proposed, especially in the United States, is (if not to magically abolish all regulations) to insert these compliance blocks into an algorithmic system (known as A.I.), the solution most often proposed, especially in the United States, is (if not to magically remove all regulations) to insert these compliance blocks into an algorithmic system (known as A.I.) and the &quot;compliance issue&quot; would no longer even arise&#8230;\ud83d\udcce<sup class=\"mafr-note\" data-note=\"8\"><a href=\"#\" role=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mafr-note-113693-8\">8<\/a><\/sup><span class=\"mafr-note__texte\" id=\"mafr-note-113693-8\" role=\"tooltip\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span>P. Ohm,&nbsp;\ud83d\udcdd<a href=\"http:\/\/\u201cToward Compliance Zero: AI and the Vanishing Costs of Regulatory Compliance,\u201d by Paul Ohm (Georgetown University Law Center)\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Toward Compliance Zero: AI and the Vanishing Costs of Regulatory Compliance,<\/a>&nbsp;2025.<\/span>. This can be useful, as a tool\ud83d\udcce<sup class=\"mafr-note\" data-note=\"9\"><a href=\"#\" role=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mafr-note-113693-9\">9<\/a><\/sup><span class=\"mafr-note__texte\" id=\"mafr-note-113693-9\" role=\"tooltip\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span><a href=\"\/en\/about\/presentation\/\">M.-A. Frison-Roche&nbsp;<\/a>,&nbsp;\ud83d\udd04Chronicle&nbsp;<em>MAFR Dalloz Compliance Law,&nbsp;<\/em>\ud83d\udcdd<a href=\"\/publications\/chroniques\/chroniques-mafr-droit-de-la-compliance\/compliance-et-conformite-les-distinguer-pour-les-a\/\">Compliance et conformit&eacute; : les distinguer pour les articule (Compliance and conformity: distinguish them in order to articulate them)<\/a>, 2024.<\/span>, but increases the pulverisation, the algorithm being no able to &quot;read&quot;, does not &quot;know&quot;, does not &quot;understand&quot;. This&nbsp;illusion of &quot;mastery&quot;, i.e. a machine being the master, increases the need for a global comprehension of Compliance Law, notably by compagnies, by stakeholders, by judges.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><strong>5. <span style=\"color:#0000FF\"><em>The sustainability of systems by concern for the human beings involved gives unity to the compliance blocks<\/em><\/span> <\/strong>\u2693This global vision, common to all the compliance blocks, is given by the imperative that the systems involved (banking, financial, energy, transport, climate, digital, etc.) do not collapse, that they last. The principle of system sustainability is at the heart of Compliance Law and gives it its unity and simplicity. In Europe\ud83d\udcce<sup class=\"mafr-note\" data-note=\"10\"><a href=\"#\" role=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mafr-note-113693-10\">10<\/a><\/sup><span class=\"mafr-note__texte\" id=\"mafr-note-113693-10\" role=\"tooltip\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span><a href=\"\/en\/about\/presentation\/\">M.-A. Frison-Roche&nbsp;<\/a>(dir.),&nbsp;\ud83d\udcd5<a href=\"\/activites\/directions-editoriales\/direction-de-la-collection-regulations-compliance-jorc-dalloz\/parution-pour-une-europe-de-la-compliance-2019\/\"><em>Pour une Europe de la Compliance<\/em><\/a>, 2019.<\/span>, this sustainability is intended to benefit present and future human beings involved in the systems\ud83d\udcce<sup class=\"mafr-note\" data-note=\"11\"><a href=\"#\" role=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mafr-note-113693-11\">11<\/a><\/sup><span class=\"mafr-note__texte\" id=\"mafr-note-113693-11\" role=\"tooltip\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span>J.-B. Racine, \ud83d\udcdd<a href=\"\/ressources\/thesaurus\/doctrine\/obligation-de-compliance-et-droits-humains-in-m-a\/\">Compliance Obligation and Human Rights<\/a>,&nbsp;<em>in<\/em>&nbsp;<span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span><a href=\"\/en\/about\/presentation\/\">M.-A. Frison-Roche&nbsp;<\/a>(dir.),&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size:16px\">\ud83d\udcd8<\/span><em><a href=\"\/activites\/directions-editoriales\/direction-de-la-collection-regulations-compliance-jorc-dalloz\/parution-obligation-de-compliance\/\">Compliance Obligation<\/a>,&nbsp;<\/em>2026 ;&nbsp;see also,&nbsp;<span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span><a href=\"\/en\/about\/presentation\/\">M.-A. Frison-Roche<\/a>, \ud83d\udcdd<a href=\"\/publications\/articles\/articles-publication-collective-juridique\/rights-primary-and-natural-compliance-tools-in-fri-2\/\">Rigths, primary and natural Compliance Tools<\/a>,&nbsp;<em>in<\/em>&nbsp;<span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span><a href=\"\/en\/about\/presentation\/\">M.-A. Frison-Roche&nbsp;<\/a>(dir.),&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size:16px\">\ud83d\udcd8<\/span><em><a href=\"\/activites\/directions-editoriales\/direction-de-la-collection-compliance-regulation-jorc-et-bruylant\/parution-compliance-tools\/\">Compliance Tools<\/a>,&nbsp;<\/em>2021.<\/span> Sustainability is therefore a technical and political concept\ud83d\udcce<sup class=\"mafr-note\" data-note=\"12\"><a href=\"#\" role=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mafr-note-113693-12\">12<\/a><\/sup><span class=\"mafr-note__texte\" id=\"mafr-note-113693-12\" role=\"tooltip\" tabindex=\"-1\">This is why the sustainability of systems is a principle, particularly in its legal aspects, shared between democratic legal systems and those that are not, particularly for climate sustainability and the sustainability of the digital infrastructure, while when it takes on a more political dimension, particularly on information and equality between human beings, there is divergence, even confrontation.<br \/><br \/>\r\n\r\nChinese Compliance Law is an example of this, particularly as regards Climate Compliance Law. On the universal nature required, due to the interdependence of technical systems, see what is happening in particular with the domain name infrastructure :&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"\/jorc\/manifestations-scientifiques\/durabilite-de-linternet-le-role-des-operateurs-du\/\"><em>Durabilit&eacute; de l&#39;Internet : le r&ocirc;le des op&eacute;rateurs du syst&egrave;me des noms de domaine. Compliance et r&eacute;gulation de l&#39;espace num&eacute;rique (Internet Sustainability: the role of the operators of the Domain Name System. Compliance and Regulation of the Digital Space<\/em><\/a><em>)<\/em><span style=\"color:rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size:17.3333px\">,&nbsp;<\/span>2025.<br \/><br \/>\r\n\r\nChinese Compliance Law is an example of this, particularly in the area of Climate Compliance. On the universal nature required, given the interdependence of technical systems, see the example of domain name infrastructure,&nbsp;<a href=\"\/jorc\/manifestations-scientifiques\/durabilite-de-linternet-le-role-des-operateurs-du\/\"><em>Durabilit&eacute; de l&#39;Internet : le r&ocirc;le des op&eacute;rateurs du syst&egrave;me des noms de domaine. Compliance et r&eacute;gulation de l&#39;espace num&eacute;rique<\/em><\/a><span style=\"color:rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size:17.3333px\">,&nbsp;<\/span>2025.<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><strong>6. <span style=\"color:#0000FF\"><em>The companies obligation of result to set up compliance structures<\/em><\/span><\/strong>\u2693In order to be deployed, Compliance Law, the Ex Ante\ud83d\udcce<sup class=\"mafr-note\" data-note=\"13\"><a href=\"#\" role=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mafr-note-113693-13\">13<\/a><\/sup><span class=\"mafr-note__texte\" id=\"mafr-note-113693-13\" role=\"tooltip\" tabindex=\"-1\">Ex Ante branch, as is Regulatory Law, which Compliance Law extends. This Ex Ante nature has immense consequences for companies, since they have to be &quot;active&quot;, whereas it is usually the States that activate the regulations, and the role of the judge himself\/herself, which was by nature Ex Post, knowing past situations in order to resolve them, is going to move towards the future and face this paradox: &quot;knowing&quot; a future that we do not know (the possible crisis, the possible damage, etc.).&nbsp;<br \/><br \/>\r\n\r\nOn the first issue, s.&nbsp;<span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span><a href=\"\/en\/about\/presentation\/\">M.-A. Frison-Roche<\/a>, \ud83d\udcdd<a href=\"\/publications\/articles\/articles-publication-collective-juridique\/62-le-couple-ex-ante-ex-post-justificatif-dun-droi\/\">Le couple Ex Ante - Ex Post, justificatif d&#39;un droit sp&eacute;cifique et propre de la r&eacute;gulation<\/a>,&nbsp;<em>in<\/em>&nbsp;<span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span><a href=\"\/en\/about\/presentation\/\">M.-A. Frison-Roche<\/a>&nbsp;(dir.), \ud83d\udcd5&nbsp;<em><a href=\"\/publications\/ouvrages\/30-direction-de-louvrage-les-engagements-dans-les\/\">Les engagements dans les syst&egrave;mes de r&eacute;gulations<\/a>,&nbsp;<\/em>2006.<em>&nbsp;<\/em><span style=\"color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size:17.3333px\">&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><br \/>\r\n\r\nOn the second issue, s.&nbsp;<em>infra\u2935\ufe0f&nbsp;<\/em>; and&nbsp;<span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span><a href=\"\/en\/about\/presentation\/\">M.-A. Frison-Roche<\/a>&nbsp;(dir.), \ud83d\udcd5&nbsp;<em><a href=\"\/?p=113136\">Contentieux syst&eacute;mique &eacute;mergent (Emerging Systemic Litigation<\/a><\/em>, 2025<\/span> branch of Law, is based on a &quot;Compliance Obligation&quot;\ud83d\udcce<sup class=\"mafr-note\" data-note=\"14\"><a href=\"#\" role=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mafr-note-113693-14\">14<\/a><\/sup><span class=\"mafr-note__texte\" id=\"mafr-note-113693-14\" role=\"tooltip\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span><a href=\"\/en\/about\/presentation\/\">M.-A. Frison-Roche&nbsp;<\/a>(dir.),&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size:16px\">\ud83d\udcd8<\/span><em><a href=\"\/activites\/directions-editoriales\/direction-de-la-collection-regulations-compliance-jorc-dalloz\/parution-obligation-de-compliance\/\">Compliance Obligation<\/a>,&nbsp;<\/em>2026.<\/span>, borne by companies\ud83d\udcce<sup class=\"mafr-note\" data-note=\"15\"><a href=\"#\" role=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mafr-note-113693-15\">15<\/a><\/sup><span class=\"mafr-note__texte\" id=\"mafr-note-113693-15\" role=\"tooltip\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span><a href=\"\/en\/about\/presentation\/\">M.-A. Frison-Roche<\/a>, \ud83d\udcddThe Compliance Obligation, a burden borne by systemic companies, giving life to Compliance Law. In practice, to have an overall vision to determine what can be demanded under Compliance,&nbsp;<em>in<\/em>&nbsp;<span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span><a href=\"\/en\/about\/presentation\/\">M.-A. Frison-Roche&nbsp;<\/a>(dir.),&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size:16px\">\ud83d\udcd8<\/span><em><a href=\"\/activites\/directions-editoriales\/direction-de-la-collection-regulations-compliance-jorc-dalloz\/parution-obligation-de-compliance\/\">Compliance Obligation<\/a>,&nbsp;<\/em>2026<\/span>, which is expressed through and beyond the many and varied technical compliance obligations. First of all, it consists of setting up compliance structures (information, alerts and warning, investigation, sanction, training, assessment structures, etc.). This is a structural obligation of result, because without these structures the desired outcome cannot even be imagined.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><strong>7. <span style=\"color:#0000CD\"><em>The obligation of means to produce efficient systemic effects contributing to achieving the Monumental Goals targeted by the regulatory blocks<\/em><\/span><\/strong> \u2693But the essential thing is in the effects produced thanks to these compliance structures. It&#39;s about changing behaviour, obtaining a culture of probity, respect for others and nature, listening, etc. It is an obligation of means because it is then a question of contributing to the achievement of this Monumental Goal which is the protection of an absolute and distant other, in space and in time, showing the points of contact between Compliance and Ethics<sup class=\"mafr-note\" data-note=\"16\"><a href=\"#\" role=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mafr-note-113693-16\">16<\/a><\/sup><span class=\"mafr-note__texte\" id=\"mafr-note-113693-16\" role=\"tooltip\" tabindex=\"-1\">On these contact points, see&nbsp;<span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span><a href=\"\/en\/about\/presentation\/\">M.-A. Frison-Roche<\/a>,&nbsp;<span style=\"color:rgb(6, 22, 34); font-size:16px\">\ud83d\udcdd<\/span><a href=\"\/publications\/articles\/articles-jorc\/will-heart-and-calculation-in-m-a-frison-roche-dir\/\">Will, Heart and Calculation, the three marks surrounding the Compliance Obligation<\/a><a href=\"\/publications\/articles\/articles-jorc\/le-cur-et-le-calcul-in-m-a-frison-roche-dir-loblig\/\">,<\/a>&nbsp;<em>in&nbsp;<\/em><span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span><a href=\"\/en\/about\/presentation\/\">M.-A. Frison-Roche&nbsp;<\/a>(dir.),&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size:16px\">\ud83d\udcd8<\/span><em><a href=\"\/activites\/directions-editoriales\/direction-de-la-collection-regulations-compliance-jorc-dalloz\/parution-obligation-de-compliance\/\">Compliance Obligation<\/a>,&nbsp;<\/em>2026&nbsp;; see also&nbsp;&quot;Les points de contact entre l&#39;obligation de compliance et la RSE&nbsp;(<em>The points of contact between the compliance obligation and CSR<\/em>)&quot;, audition before the French&nbsp;<em>Cour de cassation<\/em>, Oct. 2025.<\/span>.&nbsp;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"color:#B22222\"><strong>II. THE JUDGE, GUARDIAN OF THE UNIFIED NORMATIVE ANCHORING OF COMPLIANCE BLOCKS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><strong>8. <span style=\"color:#0000FF\"><em>The judge, guardian of the Compliance Obligation<\/em><\/span><\/strong>\u2693 While the algorithm promises that we could mechanically obtain total conformity with a thousand regulations, by ticking a thousand boxes, thus avoiding crossing any lawyer or judge, practice shows the growing Jurisdictionalisation of Compliance\ud83d\udcce<sup class=\"mafr-note\" data-note=\"17\"><a href=\"#\" role=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mafr-note-113693-17\">17<\/a><\/sup><span class=\"mafr-note__texte\" id=\"mafr-note-113693-17\" role=\"tooltip\" tabindex=\"-1\">&nbsp;<span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span><a href=\"\/en\/about\/presentation\/\">M.-A. Frison-Roche&nbsp;<\/a>(dir.),<em>&nbsp;<\/em><span style=\"font-size:16px\">\ud83d\udcd8<\/span><em><a href=\"\/activites\/directions-editoriales\/direction-de-la-collection-compliance-regulation-jorc-et-bruylant\/parution-compliance-jurisdictionalisation\/\">Compliance Jurisdictionalisation<\/a><\/em>, 2024.<\/span>. Not only does the judge articulate the use of compliance techniques with the principles of law, for example the rights of the defence\ud83d\udcce<sup class=\"mafr-note\" data-note=\"18\"><a href=\"#\" role=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mafr-note-113693-18\">18<\/a><\/sup><span class=\"mafr-note__texte\" id=\"mafr-note-113693-18\" role=\"tooltip\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span><a href=\"\/en\/about\/presentation\/\">M.-A. Frison-Roche<\/a>&nbsp;et&nbsp;<span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span>M Boissavy&nbsp;(dir.),&nbsp;\ud83d\udcd5&nbsp;<em><a href=\"\/activites\/directions-editoriales\/direction-de-la-collection-regulations-compliance-jorc-dalloz\/parution-compliance-et-droits-de-la-defense-enquete-interne\/\">Compliance et droits de la d&eacute;fense<\/a>,&nbsp;<\/em>2024.<\/span>,, but he also establishes the principles of Compliance Law, the very ones that are lacking in these siloed blocks of compliance, principles that make it possible to articulate them and give them coherence, security and life. It ensures that companies carry out their compliance obligation in a way that corresponds to the aim sought by the author of the texts\ud83d\udcce<sup class=\"mafr-note\" data-note=\"19\"><a href=\"#\" role=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mafr-note-113693-19\">19<\/a><\/sup><span class=\"mafr-note__texte\" id=\"mafr-note-113693-19\" role=\"tooltip\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span>K. Lenaerts,<a href=\"\/ressources\/thesaurus\/doctrine\/le-juge-de-lunion-europeenne-dans-une-europe-de-la\/\">&nbsp;<\/a>\ud83d\udcdd<a href=\"\/ressources\/thesaurus\/doctrine\/le-juge-de-lunion-europeenne-dans-une-europe-de-la\/\">Le juge de l&#39;Union europ&eacute;enne dans une Europe de la Compliance<\/a>, in&nbsp;<span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span><a href=\"\/en\/about\/presentation\/\">M.-A. Frison-Roche&nbsp;<\/a>(dir.),<em>&nbsp;<\/em>\ud83d\udcd5<a href=\"\/activites\/directions-editoriales\/direction-de-la-collection-regulations-compliance-jorc-dalloz\/parution-pour-une-europe-de-la-compliance-2019\/\"><em>Pour une Europe de la compliance<\/em><\/a>, 2019.<\/span>, i.e. for the proper present and future operation of the systems for the benefit of the people involved. This contribution is an obligation of means.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"color:rgb(178, 34, 34)\"><strong>III. THE EMERGING SYSTEMIC LITIGATION,&nbsp; TRANSLATION OF THE SYSTEMIC COMPLIANCE LAW<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><strong>9. <span style=\"color:#0000FF\"><em>The system is in the cause: the &lsquo;systemic cause&rsquo;<\/em><\/span> <\/strong>\u2693 It follows that the system involved in the lawsuit, for example the climate system in a litigation concerning the vigilance obligation\ud83d\udcce<sup class=\"mafr-note\" data-note=\"20\"><a href=\"#\" role=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mafr-note-113693-20\">20<\/a><\/sup><span class=\"mafr-note__texte\" id=\"mafr-note-113693-20\" role=\"tooltip\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span><a href=\"\/en\/about\/presentation\/\">M.-A. Frison-Roche<\/a>,&nbsp;\ud83d\udcdd,&nbsp;<a href=\"\/publications\/articles\/articles-jorc\/la-vigilance-part-totale-de-lobligation-de-complia\/\">La vigilance, pointe avanc&eacute;e et part totale de l&#39;obligation de compliance<\/a>,&nbsp;<em>in<\/em>&nbsp;<span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span><a href=\"\/en\/about\/presentation\/\">M.-A. Frison-Roche&nbsp;<\/a>(dir.),&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size:16px\">\ud83d\udcd8<\/span><em><a href=\"\/activites\/directions-editoriales\/direction-de-la-collection-regulations-compliance-jorc-dalloz\/parution-obligation-de-compliance\/\">Compliance Obligation<\/a>,&nbsp;<\/em>2026.<\/span>, is &lsquo;in the cause&rsquo;, i.e. in the situation that is brought to the judge&#39;s attention and that he must consider in order to judge\ud83d\udcce<sup class=\"mafr-note\" data-note=\"21\"><a href=\"#\" role=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mafr-note-113693-21\">21<\/a><\/sup><span class=\"mafr-note__texte\" id=\"mafr-note-113693-21\" role=\"tooltip\" tabindex=\"-1\">In French, the terme of <em>cause&nbsp;<\/em>is not so easy than the English term of <em>case. <\/em>But it is also adequate. Indeed, the term &#39;cause&#39; is an appropriate one, albeit an old one, and is used in article 5 of the French Civil Code, to make it clear that while the judge must develop his powers to grasp the elements of the cause submitted to him\/her before ruling, he\/she&nbsp;must not, however, draw up a general rule. As this very important legal disposition says: &quot;<em>Il est d&eacute;fendu aux juges de prononcer par voie de disposition g&eacute;n&eacute;rale et r&eacute;glementaire sur les&nbsp;<strong>causes<\/strong>&nbsp;qui leur sont soumises<\/em>&quot;( &#39;Judges are forbidden to rule by way of general and regulatory provision on the causes submitted to them&#39;).<\/span>. It is because the legislator, and possibly the contracting parties\ud83d\udcce<sup class=\"mafr-note\" data-note=\"22\"><a href=\"#\" role=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mafr-note-113693-22\">22<\/a><\/sup><span class=\"mafr-note__texte\" id=\"mafr-note-113693-22\" role=\"tooltip\" tabindex=\"-1\">On this hypothesis,<span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span><a href=\"\/en\/about\/presentation\/\">M.-A. Frison-Roche<\/a>,\ud83d\udcdd<a href=\"\/?p=113152\">&quot;Obligation upon&nbsp;obligation work&quot;<\/a>,&nbsp;<em>in<\/em>&nbsp;<span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span><a href=\"\/en\/about\/presentation\/\">M.-A. Frison-Roche&nbsp;<\/a>(dir.),&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size:16px\">\ud83d\udcd8<\/span><em><a href=\"\/activites\/directions-editoriales\/direction-de-la-collection-regulations-compliance-jorc-dalloz\/parution-obligation-de-compliance\/\">Compliance Obligation<\/a>,&nbsp;<\/em>2026.<\/span>, wanted to preserve a system that the company is subject to the compliance obligation on behalf of which a lawsuit is being brought. Therefore, the &lsquo;reason for the trial&rsquo; is the system itself. This gives the trial a monumental dimension, as highlighted by Professor Nicolas Cayrol\ud83d\udcce<sup class=\"mafr-note\" data-note=\"23\"><a href=\"#\" role=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mafr-note-113693-23\">23<\/a><\/sup><span class=\"mafr-note__texte\" id=\"mafr-note-113693-23\" role=\"tooltip\" tabindex=\"-1\">To demonstrate this,&nbsp;<span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span>N. Cayrol, \ud83d\udcdd<a href=\"\/ressources\/thesaurus\/doctrine\/general-procedural-law-in-compliance-law-in-frison\/\">Procedural Principals in Compliance Law<\/a>,&nbsp;<em>in<\/em>&nbsp;<span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span><a href=\"\/en\/about\/presentation\/\">M.-A. Frison-Roche&nbsp;<\/a>(dir.),<em>&nbsp;<\/em><span style=\"font-size:16px\">\ud83d\udcd8<\/span><em><a href=\"\/activites\/directions-editoriales\/direction-de-la-collection-compliance-regulation-jorc-et-bruylant\/parution-compliance-jurisdictionalisation\/\">Compliance Jurisdictionalisation<\/a><\/em>, 2024.<\/span>. The system itself is involved in the case, which thus becomes a &lsquo;systemic case&rsquo;, a procedural concept proposed in 2021\ud83d\udcce<sup class=\"mafr-note\" data-note=\"24\"><a href=\"#\" role=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mafr-note-113693-24\">24<\/a><\/sup><span class=\"mafr-note__texte\" id=\"mafr-note-113693-24\" role=\"tooltip\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span><a href=\"\/en\/about\/presentation\/\">M.-A. Frison-Roche<\/a>, \ud83d\udea7<a href=\"\/publications\/documents-de-travail\/lhypothese-des-causes-systemiques\/\">The hypothesis of the category of the Systemic Cases brought before the Judge<\/a>, &nbsp;2021.<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><strong>10. <span style=\"color:#0000FF\"><em>The novelty of &quot;systemic litigation&quot; brought about by Compliance Law<\/em><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color:#0000FF\"><em> <\/em><\/span>\u2693Systemic Litigation, which brings together systemic causes beyond the various types of proceedings, thereby encouraging the perspective of Procedural Law\ud83d\udcce<sup class=\"mafr-note\" data-note=\"25\"><a href=\"#\" role=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mafr-note-113693-25\">25<\/a><\/sup><span class=\"mafr-note__texte\" id=\"mafr-note-113693-25\" role=\"tooltip\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span><a href=\"\/en\/about\/presentation\/\">M.-A. Frison-Roche<\/a>, \ud83d\udcdd<a href=\"\/?p=113720\">General Procedural Law, prototype of the Compliance Obligation<\/a>,&nbsp;<em>in<\/em>&nbsp;<span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span><a href=\"\/en\/about\/presentation\/\">M.-A. Frison-Roche&nbsp;<\/a>(dir.),&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size:16px\">\ud83d\udcd8<\/span><em><a href=\"\/activites\/directions-editoriales\/direction-de-la-collection-regulations-compliance-jorc-dalloz\/parution-obligation-de-compliance\/\">Compliance Obligation<\/a>,&nbsp;<\/em>2026.<\/span>, is new in that its purpose is to bring to the attention of the court a situation in which a systemic difficulty is alleged, through concrete elements, which it is asked to remedy not only through a particular solution but also a solution with a systemic effect.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">This is therefore a jurisdictional duplication of the logic of Compliance Law, which calls for both informal and contentious proceedings, since the dispute between the two opponents is no longer the first thing to consider\ud83d\udcce<sup class=\"mafr-note\" data-note=\"26\"><a href=\"#\" role=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mafr-note-113693-26\">26<\/a><\/sup><span class=\"mafr-note__texte\" id=\"mafr-note-113693-26\" role=\"tooltip\" tabindex=\"-1\">mafr, ...., M&eacute;langes Dominique d&#39;Ambra, &agrave; para&icirc;tre.<\/span>. This justifies mediation all the more because the removal of the dispute between the individual parties may make it possible to concentrate forces on devising solutions to systemic problems, and the judicial arena may be conducive to this. This transitivity between Compliance Law, which is new, and Systemic Litigation, which is new, results in renewed roles for each.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"color:#B22222\"><strong>IV. THE RENEWED ROLES OF EACH IN THE CONTINUUM OF COMPLIANCE LAW AND SYSTEMIC LITIGATION<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><strong>11. <span style=\"color:#0000FF\"><em>The new role of the parties to the dispute, split into two<\/em><\/span> <\/strong>\u2693The parties to the proceedings who are likely to go beyond the expression of their own interests have a privileged place. This is why the State, the public prosecutor (including in commercial cases, but also in civil cases) and NGOs are natural parties, even &quot;necessary parties&quot;\ud83d\udcce<sup class=\"mafr-note\" data-note=\"27\"><a href=\"#\" role=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mafr-note-113693-27\">27<\/a><\/sup><span class=\"mafr-note__texte\" id=\"mafr-note-113693-27\" role=\"tooltip\" tabindex=\"-1\">&nbsp;An expression rightly used by the&nbsp;<a href=\"\/ressources\/thesaurus\/jurisprudence\/09-juridictions-etrangeres\/arret-de-la-cour-dappel-de-la-haye-du-12-novembre\/\">Court of Appeal in The Hague which, in its ruling of 12 November 2024 in the famous Shell dispute,<\/a>&nbsp;both dismissed the NGO plaintiffs and stated that in climate disputes civil action must be taken, that there are therefore &quot;necessary parties&quot; and that it may be the NGOs if other parties are involved.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span>&nbsp;in Compliance Litigation. We should not take offence at this. But the judge is right to ensure that this privileged position of speaking, alleging and requesting in the name of an interest that goes beyond one&#39;s own is not used beyond or alongside the interest of the system, which is justified by the strict control of each person&#39;s interest in acting\ud83d\udcce<sup class=\"mafr-note\" data-note=\"28\"><a href=\"#\" role=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mafr-note-113693-28\">28<\/a><\/sup><span class=\"mafr-note__texte\" id=\"mafr-note-113693-28\" role=\"tooltip\" tabindex=\"-1\">Court of Paris, 18 June&nbsp;2024 ; see&nbsp;<span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span>Th. Goujon-Bethan,&nbsp;\ud83d\udcddPresent and Future Challenges of Articulating Principles of French Civil and Commercial Procedure with the logic of Compliance,&nbsp;<em>in<\/em>&nbsp;<span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span><a href=\"\/en\/about\/presentation\/\">M.-A. Frison-Roche&nbsp;<\/a>(dir.),&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size:16px\">\ud83d\udcd8<\/span><em><a href=\"\/activites\/directions-editoriales\/direction-de-la-collection-regulations-compliance-jorc-dalloz\/parution-obligation-de-compliance\/\">Compliance Obligation<\/a>,&nbsp;<\/em>2026.&nbsp;<\/span>. Indeed, there is always a risk when the systemic dimension of litigation prompts the parties to the dispute to split into two, defending not only the interests of their person but also the interests of the system, a splitting which evokes the duality of the particular interest and the general interest to which traditional procedure has always had difficulty adhering but which Compliance Law inserts by transitivity into Litigation through the concept of &quot;stakeholder&quot;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><strong>12. <span style=\"color:#0000FF\"><em>Parties to the proceedings alongside the parties to the dispute<\/em><\/span><\/strong> \u2693In the same movement of &quot;stakeholders&quot; that has turned Company Law upside down\ud83d\udcce<sup class=\"mafr-note\" data-note=\"29\"><a href=\"#\" role=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mafr-note-113693-29\">29<\/a><\/sup><span class=\"mafr-note__texte\" id=\"mafr-note-113693-29\" role=\"tooltip\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span>V. Magnier,\ud83d\udcddTransformation of Governance and the Vigilance,&nbsp;<em>in<\/em>&nbsp;<span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span><a href=\"\/en\/about\/presentation\/\">M.-A. Frison-Roche&nbsp;<\/a>(dir.),&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size:16px\">\ud83d\udcd8<\/span><em><a href=\"\/activites\/directions-editoriales\/direction-de-la-collection-regulations-compliance-jorc-dalloz\/parution-obligation-de-compliance\/\">Compliance Obligation<\/a>,&nbsp;<\/em>2026.<\/span>, parties to the proceedings are developing alongside the parties to the dispute, capable of expressing the interest of the system, which corresponds to what Professor Thibaud Goujon-Bethan has termed the &quot;arri&egrave;re-litige (beyong-litigation)&quot;\ud83d\udcce<sup class=\"mafr-note\" data-note=\"30\"><a href=\"#\" role=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mafr-note-113693-30\">30<\/a><\/sup><span class=\"mafr-note__texte\" id=\"mafr-note-113693-30\" role=\"tooltip\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span>Th. Goujon-Bethan,\ud83d\udcdd<span style=\"color:rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size:17.3333px\">&nbsp;<\/span>Present and Future Challenges of Articulating Principles of French Civil and Commercial Procedure with the logic of Compliance,&nbsp;<em>in<\/em>&nbsp;<span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span><a href=\"\/en\/about\/presentation\/\">M.-A. Frison-Roche&nbsp;<\/a>(dir.),&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size:16px\">\ud83d\udcd8<\/span><em><a href=\"\/activites\/directions-editoriales\/direction-de-la-collection-regulations-compliance-jorc-dalloz\/parution-obligation-de-compliance\/\">Compliance Obligation<\/a>,&nbsp;<\/em>2026.<\/span>. These will include <em>amici curiae<\/em>, regulators and administrations (including in civil litigation), scientists, NGOs (not parties to the litigation). Cross-examination will then be an appropriate way of taking evidence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><strong>13. <span style=\"color:#0000FF\"><em>The office of the Judge in Systemic Compliance Litigation<\/em><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color:#0000FF\"><em> <\/em><\/span>\u2693The Judge is faced with the dizzying task of understanding the interests of the system, even though he\/she is not necessarily a judge specialising in this sort of Litigation\ud83d\udcce<sup class=\"mafr-note\" data-note=\"31\"><a href=\"#\" role=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mafr-note-113693-31\">31<\/a><\/sup><span class=\"mafr-note__texte\" id=\"mafr-note-113693-31\" role=\"tooltip\" tabindex=\"-1\">On the French saga of the attribution to the Judicial Court of Paris of jurisdiction for Vigilance Litigation, a Systemic Litigation, a jurisdiction which is a special jurisdiction and not an exclusive jurisdiction, see \ud83d\udd74\ufe0fF. Ancel, \ud83d\udcddVigilance Obligation and Litigation: a competence&nbsp;to be shared, in\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<a href=\"\/en\/about\/presentation\/\">M.-A. Frison-Roche<\/a> (dir.), \ud83d\udcd8<em><a href=\"\/activites\/directions-editoriales\/direction-de-la-collection-regulations-compliance-jorc-dalloz\/parution-obligation-de-compliance\/\">Compliance Obligation<\/a><\/em>, 2026.<\/span>. He\/she must train himself\/herself to find robust solutions for the future, since Compliance Litigation is about the future of systems\ud83d\udcce<sup class=\"mafr-note\" data-note=\"32\"><a href=\"#\" role=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mafr-note-113693-32\">32<\/a><\/sup><span class=\"mafr-note__texte\" id=\"mafr-note-113693-32\" role=\"tooltip\" tabindex=\"-1\">On this point,<span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span><a href=\"\/en\/about\/presentation\/\">M.-A. Frison-Roche&nbsp;<\/a>, conclusion,&nbsp;<em>in&nbsp;<a href=\"\/en\/activities\/organization-of-scientific-events\/\">Dans l&rsquo;espace de justice, les pratiques juridictionnelles au service du futur (In the space of Justice, jurisdictional practices at the service of the Future)<\/a><\/em>, 2024.<\/span>. Solutions, such as remediation, mediation and the appointment of a monitor, must be given priority. Even if this is mainly a matter of training, culture and dialogue among judges, the question of evidence concerning a compliance obligation that will be increasingly transterritorial\ud83d\udcce<sup class=\"mafr-note\" data-note=\"33\"><a href=\"#\" role=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mafr-note-113693-33\">33<\/a><\/sup><span class=\"mafr-note__texte\" id=\"mafr-note-113693-33\" role=\"tooltip\" tabindex=\"-1\">On this point,&nbsp;<span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span>J.-Ch. Roda, \ud83d\udcdd<a href=\"\/?p=113722\">Proof that Vigilance has been properly carried out with regard to the Compliance Evidence System<\/a>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>in<\/em>&nbsp;<span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span><a href=\"\/en\/about\/presentation\/\">M.-A. Frison-Roche&nbsp;<\/a>(dir.),&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size:16px\">\ud83d\udcd8<\/span><em><a href=\"\/activites\/directions-editoriales\/direction-de-la-collection-regulations-compliance-jorc-dalloz\/parution-obligation-de-compliance\/\">Compliance Obligation<\/a>,&nbsp;<\/em>2026.<\/span> , or even aterritorial, particularly in digital matters, will require an adaptation of the evidentiary office.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><strong>14. <span style=\"color:#0000FF\"><em>The Judge, a Systemic Player in Compliance Systems<\/em><\/span><\/strong>\u2693Moreover, in the same way that the French <em>Conseil d&#39;\u00c9tat<\/em> sees itself as &quot;the Regulator of Regulators&quot;, the Judge must appear as an institution that is both central and &quot;ordinary&quot; (in the sense of non-pathological) in Compliance Law. Insofar as he\/she&nbsp;settles a systemic dispute\ud83d\udcce<sup class=\"mafr-note\" data-note=\"34\"><a href=\"#\" role=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mafr-note-113693-34\">34<\/a><\/sup><span class=\"mafr-note__texte\" id=\"mafr-note-113693-34\" role=\"tooltip\" tabindex=\"-1\">The Hight Judge Fran&ccedil;ois Ancel proposes that the courts should develop a specific procedural way of dealing with these compliance disputes, by developing the principles of Security, Proportionality and Sustainability, and that they should also develop, in a dialogue between the courts, a jurisprudential policy that gives everyone, and especially companies, a reference point.&nbsp;S. F. Ancel, \ud83d\udcdd<a href=\"\/ressources\/thesaurus\/doctrine\/quel-role-pour-le-juge-aujourdhui-dans-la-complian\/\">Quel r&ocirc;le pour le juge aujourd&#39;hui dans la compliance ? Quel office processuel du juge dans la compliance ? (What role do judges play in Compliance today? What i the judge&#39;s procedural role in Compliance?<\/a>,&nbsp;<em>in&nbsp;<\/em>Conseil d&#39;&Eacute;tat &amp;&nbsp;Cour de cassation (dir.),&nbsp;<a href=\"\/ressources\/thesaurus\/doctrine\/de-la-regulation-a-la-compliance-quel-role-pour-le\/\"><em>De la r&eacute;gulation &agrave; la compliance : quel r&ocirc;le pour le juge ?<\/em><\/a>, 2024.<br \/><br \/>\r\n\r\nThere&#39;s no better way to express it.<br \/><br \/>\r\n\r\nSee from the same author:&nbsp;<span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span>F. Ancel, \ud83d\udcdd<a href=\"\/ressources\/thesaurus\/doctrine\/the-procedural-principle-of-compliance-a-new-trial\/\">Compliance Law, a new guiding principle for the Trial?<\/a>,&nbsp;<br \/><br \/>\r\n\r\nL&#39;on ne saurait mieux dire.<\/span>&nbsp; in the course of which he\/she identifies the guiding principles of this new branch of Law that the mass of regulations paradoxically masks, principles produced from the first instance\ud83d\udcce<sup class=\"mafr-note\" data-note=\"35\"><a href=\"#\" role=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mafr-note-113693-35\">35<\/a><\/sup><span class=\"mafr-note__texte\" id=\"mafr-note-113693-35\" role=\"tooltip\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span>O. Douvreleur,&nbsp;\ud83d\udcdd<a href=\"\/ressources\/thesaurus\/doctrine\/compliance-and-judge-ruling-only-on-points-of-law\/\">Compliance and Judge of the Law<\/a>,&nbsp;<em>in<\/em>&nbsp;<span style=\"color:rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size:18.6667px\">\ud83d\udd74\ufe0f<\/span><a href=\"\/en\/about\/presentation\/\">M.-A. Frison-Roche&nbsp;<\/a>(dir.),<em>&nbsp;<\/em><span style=\"font-size:16px\">\ud83d\udcd8<\/span><em><a href=\"\/activites\/directions-editoriales\/direction-de-la-collection-compliance-regulation-jorc-et-bruylant\/parution-compliance-jurisdictionalisation\/\">Compliance Jurisdictionalisation<\/a><\/em>, 2024.<\/span> , the judge participates with the other actors involved in the sustainability of the systems.&nbsp;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">________<\/p>\n<hr class=\"mafr-notes-sep\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; 1.&nbsp;A new foundation has created a new branch of Law: Compliance Law\u2693Legal systems have changed, and Compliance Law 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