For several years now, the legal status of the AMF has been in question when it intervenes before the Paris Court of Appeal in appeals against its own individual decisions, pursuant to Article L. 621-30 of the Monetary and Financial Code, even though this optional intervention is expressly provided for in Article R. 621-46 of […]
Paris | FINANCIAL ENGINEERING | BANKING AND FINANCIAL REGULATION
The Covid-19 epidemic that we went through from March 2020 onwards, and which unfortunately is still ongoing, has not only had calamitous health consequences for the country, but also catastrophic collateral effects on the world of sport, both professional and amateur, and especially on the national football championships of League 1 and League 2, which […]
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On 20 July 2021, the European Commission published a draft European regulation to create a new European authority, the Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AMLA). The AMLA will be responsible for combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism and will have supervisory and sanctioning powers and will ensure that […]
Paris | BANK-FINANCE-REGULATORY
Opinion column by Adrien Fourmon, Counsel, Jeantet, on the climate law and its impact on the development of commercial surfaces. Following the Citizens’ Climate Convention, an unprecedented democratic exercise that allowed for direct consultation with more than a hundred citizens, the bill on combating climate change and strengthening resilience to its effects was presented to […]
Paris | RENEWABLE ENERGY – RE | ENERGY EFFICIENCY
In its position of 3 June 2021, the AMF states that it applies all the guidance issued by ESMA on “certain aspects of MiFID II relating to the requirements of the compliance function” and published on 6 April 2021. This guidance complements, clarifies or simply confirms the guidance issued on 25 June 2012 in the […]
Paris | BANKING AND FINANCIAL REGULATION
Au regard du montant annuel des escroqueries aux subventions communautaires, 3 milliards d’euros, et de celui des fraudes à la TVA au sein de l’Union européenne (UE), 50 milliards d’euros, l’entrée en vigueur imminente de l’action du Parquet européen est presque providentielle. Toutefois, si celui-ci marque une étape importante dans la construction d’une UE plus intégrée, les […]
Paris | CRIMINAL LAW
The difficulties that businesses continue to face due to the economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic raise fears of a wave of bankruptcies with the gradual phasing out of state aid. The government has therefore taken new measures (deferral of repayment of EGPs, equity loans, etc.) which complement those already applied since the beginning of […]
Paris | RESTRUCTURING – LAW OF COMPANIES IN DIFFICULTY
Because of its storable nature, hydrogen will undeniably be one of the pillars of the energy transition but will also, as the Minister of the Economy recalled on 8 September 2020, strengthen France’s energy and industrial sovereignty in the next decade.
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1 – Fines for Breach of Laws on Personal Data and Sovereign RuNet to be Increased 2 – General Meetings of Shareholders by Absentee Voting Authorized through 2021 3 – New Rules for Highly Qualified Foreign Employees 4 – New Rules for Foreign Branches and Representative Offices 5 – New Rules for Online Meetings Proposed […]
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This column essentially covers the period from 1 June to 31 December 2020. A few lines are devoted to the decision of the Constitutional Council of 5 March 2021 (S 4).
Paris | REAL ESTATE
In light of the fact that there are still far too few charging stations for electric vehicles on the French motorway network, which currently only includes 140 equipped service areas, and in order to promote long-distance mobility for electric vehicles, the government has undertaken to ensure that all service areas on the concessionary motorway network […]
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On 17 January, the Ministry of Ecological Transition published in the Official Journal the first decree known as “absolute values I” which defines, by 2030, the levels of reduction of final energy consumption in certain tertiary buildings (decree of 24 November 2020 amending the decree of 10 April 2020 relating to obligations to reduce final […]
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