► Full Reference: Frison-Roche, M.-A., The Dynamics of the Compliance Monumental Goals, in Frison-Roche, M.-A. (ed.), Compliance Monumental Goals, series "Compliance & Regulation", Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Bruylant, to be published.

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► Article Summary:  This article constitutes the afterword of the book Compliance Monumental Goals.

Its purpose is to show the consistency of the book, in that the Monumental Goals themselves, by their normativity, give Uniqueness to Compliance Law, giving it simplicity and strength.

Restituting each of the contributions and articulating them all in an overall demonstration, this article highlights this consistency of the Compliance mechanisms which join the primary function of the Law: the protection of human beings, now and in the future.

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📘read a general presentation of the book, Compliance Monumental Goal, in which this article is published.

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► read the presentations of the other Marie-Anne Frison-Roche's contributions in this book: 

📝Definition of Principe of Proportionality and Definition of Compliance Law,

📝 Role and Place of Companies in the Creation and Effectiveness of Compliance Law in Crisis, 

📝 Assessment of Whistleblowing and the duty of Vigilance

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This article is free access. 

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► Référence générale : Frison-Roche, M.-A., Droit de la Compliance et Cloud souverain, in Souveraineté numérique : quelles solutions pour quels problèmes ? ,   Association Master 2 Droit du Commerce Électronique et de l’Économie Numérique (M2 DCEEN), Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I), 9 juin 2022, 18h-20h.

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Voir le programme

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Cette intervention s'insère dans un débat coordonné par la professeure Judith Rochfeld, auquel participent également Monsieur le Député Philippe Latombe et Céline Heller (société Google).

Pour ma part, interrogée en premier pendant un 1/4 d'heure, il s'agissait en premier lieu, avant de participer à la discussion générale, de répondre aux trois questions suivantes :

•  Quelles définitions doivent être retenues pour la souveraineté numérique ?
• Quel est le rapport entre souveraineté numérique et droit de la compliance ?
• Plus largement, quelle place le Droit doit-il occuper dans la souveraineté numérique selon vous ?
• En quoi la souveraineté numérique est-elle un but monumental ? 

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► Référence complète : L. Tenreira, "La rédaction des clauses d'application du devoir de vigilance par les Global Lawyers : l'exemple des clauses de flow-Down", RDAI/IBLJ, n°5, 2022, p. 453-466.

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► Résumé de l'article : 

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 Référence complète : Convention judiciaire d’intérêt public (CJIP) PNF et Mc Donald's France, Mc Donald's System of France LLC et McD Luxembourg Real Estate Sarl, 31 mai 2022

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Lire le communiqué de presse du Procureur de la République financier. 

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► Référence complète : Autorité de la concurrence (ADLC), Document-cadre du 24 mai 2022 sur les programmes de conformité aux règles de concurrence, 2022.

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► Lire le document-cadre.

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Référence complète : Agence française anticorruption (AFA), Rapport d'activité 2021, mai 2022, 68 p.

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Lire le rapport

► Référence générale : Haut Comité juridique de la place financière de Paris, Rapport sur l'extraterritorialité du Droit de l'Union européenne, mai 2022.

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📓Lire le rapport

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► Référence complète : Frison-Roche, M.A., La fonction sociale du Droit de la Compliance, Table-ronde "Les nouvelles formes d'un Droit embrassant son rôle de régulation", in📅Association du Master de Droit privé de Paris I (ADPG), Le rôle de régulateur social du Droit privé, Paris, 15 avril 2022. 

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📅Lire le programme général du colloque

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► Présentation générale de la conférence : En raison de la conception générale de la journée, ancrée dans le "Droit privé", mais qui oscillait en permanence sur la définition générale de ce qu'est la "régulation sociale" et qui est constitué depuis plus de vingt ans dans une branche du Droit spécifique, le Droit de la Régulation, parce qu'on m'avait demandé de présenter La fonction sociale du Droit de la Compliance, à un public sans doute peu averti du Droit économique, j'ai procédé de la façon suivante :

Je suis partie du souci actuel accru de savoir si le Droit peut avoir une part pour contenir les forces qui régissent le monde et s'y affrontent. Je suis partie de deux cas pratiques. Le premier irait plutôt vers une réponse positive, est celui de l'adoption en cours du Digital Services Act, législation européenne de Compliance qui utilise la puissance des opérateurs numériques cruciaux qui prévenir et lutte contre la haine et la désinformation dans l'espace numérique. Le second cas pratique qui débute est la possible prise de contrôle de Twitter par Elon Musk, opérée par celui-ci au nom de la "Démocratie" et pour l'instant le peu de contrôle que le Droit en cas.

A partir de de ces deux exemples, j'ai repris la définition du Droit de la Compliance, qui n'est pas la procédure par laquelle certains opérateurs devraient montrer qu'ils respectent la totalité des règles qui leurs sont applicables mais qui est substantiellement défini par des buts monumentaux substantiellement voulus posés par le Politique qui trouvent des alliés, volontaires ou contraints, en position de le faire. Ce Droit Ex Ante porte sur le futur, est de nature systémique et utilise des moyens qui traversent toutes les branches du Droit, notamment le contrat et la responsabilité.

Le Droit de la Compliance est le prolongement du Droit de la Régulation. Il opère une régulation sociale et présente trois caractéristiques. Il est forcément mondial. Il est forcément politique. Il est forcément humain.

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Pour aller plus loin⤵️

📝Le droit de la Régulation, 2001

📝Le Droit de la Compliance, 2016

📕Les buts monumentaux de la Compliance, 2022

📕La juridictionnalisation de la Compliance, 2022

📝 lire la présentation générale du livre, Les Buts Monumentaux de la Compliance, dans lequel l'article est publié.

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► Lire les présentations des autres contributions de Marie-Anne Frison-Roche dans cet ouvrage : 

📝 Les Buts Monumentaux, cœur battant du Droit de la Compliance,

📝 Rôle et place des entreprises dans la création et l'effectivité du Droit de la Compliance en cas de crise 

📝 Appréciation du lancement d'alerte et de l'obligation de vigilance au regard de la compétitivité internationale

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► Full Reference: E. Silva-Romero & R. Legru, "What place is there for compliance in investment arbitration?", in M.-A. Frison-Roche (ed.), Compliance Jurisdictionalisation, Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Bruylant, coll. "Compliance & Regulation", to be published.  

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📘read a general presentation of the book, Compliance Jurisdictionalisation, in which this article is published

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► The summary below describes an article that follows an intervention in the scientific manifestation Compliance et Arbitrage, co-organised by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and the University Panthéon-Assas (Paris II). This conference was designed by Marie-Anne Frison-Roche and Jean-Baptiste Racine, scientific co-directors, and took place in Paris II University on March 31, 2021. 

In the book, the article will be published in Title III, devoted to: Compliance et Arbitrage.

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► Summary of the article: The authors emphasize the new and growing place of Compliance in International Arbitration, particularly in the requirement of respect for ethical values, since arbitrators can implement Ethics, sometimes lacking in international trade, or even must put their power only at the service of investors who respect the Rule of Law.

Thus, Compliance is deployed through the classic control by the arbitrators of the legality of the investment, which applies both to the establishment of the treaty itself and to the investor. In a more recent way, the arbitrator can control about an investment project a sort of "social license to operate" of the investor, concept related to the social responsibility of the companies, appeared for the protection of the peoples indigenous. Moreover, Compliance can justify a substantial assessment by the arbitrator of the effective respect of the human rights and the environment protection via an investment treaty, the State party remaining able to act for the effectiveness of these concerns.

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► Full Reference: FM.-A. Frison-Roche, La responsabilité ex ante, pilier du droit de la compliance ("Ex-Ante Responsibility, Compliance Law Pillar"), D.2022, chronique MAFR - Droit de la Compliance, Recueil Dalloz, March 31, 2022.

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► Article English Summary: The Law must help to face the future, which can be totally catastrophic in terms of climate and digital issues. Courts are s best placed for this, without “governing”, only relying on the commitments made by companies, governments, and legislators.  On the ordinary Tort Law, court decisions oblige these different entities to be consistent in the commitments they have made, obliging them to act in the future, formal “compliance” with the regulations cannot be sufficient. This ex-ante responsibility, founding the powers, thus constitutes a pillar of a substantial Compliance Law, showing the part that CSR and the companies with a raison d'être play in it.

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📝 read the article. (written in French)

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📚go to the presentation of the other articles published in this Chronique Droit de la Compliance made in the Recueil Dalloz. 

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► Full reference: Frison-Roche, M.A., The part of Compliance Law in the fight against Corruption and Climate Change, in Paris Arbitration Week (PAW), Compliance: Corruption and Climate Change - how legal systems adapt?, Jones Day, March 29, 2022.

Debate with Mathias Audit coordinated by Claire Pauly, Vice-President of the Paris Arbitration Week. 

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► Presentation of the intervention: After the presentation made by Mathias Audit of the consideration of facts of corruption, notably by the red flags method, in an arbitration trial, it seems a low-performing system of proof in compliance: the more diligent a party is in showing that it tried to meet its compliance obligations, the more it is exposed to demonstrating its own failure to doing so.  It seems a perversity … Therefore, I can understand why companies often so dislike Compliance Law because more they make efforts, more they put money and more they are punished…

But this representation is not totally exact.

My first observation is about the definitions themselves. It is particularly important to have a precise definition of “compliance obligations”, to not confuse them with obligations coming from Criminal Law. The confusion between Criminal Law and Compliance Law is frequent, maybe because what Compliance Law want to eradicate is also prohibited by Criminal Law, for instance corruption. Indeed, technically criminal legal rules and compliance legal rules have many points of contacts, but they are not the same: the obligations are different, the legal persons obliged are different, the reasoning are different the purposes are different.

Because the general definition of Criminal Law and Compliance Law are different. Criminal Law, very old branch of Law, which prohibits and sanctions corruption, does it for everyone because the singular behavior is wrong (to corrupt; to be corrupted). Compliance Law is a very new branch of Law, is a systemic branch of economic Law, which wants to eradicate in the future mechanisms because they destroy economic systems, such as corruption does. Its wants that not to protect moral values but to protect economic systems. Therefore, Compliance Law asks some entities, large companies, to do something only because they are in position to do so: to detect and to prevent this corruption, in order to obtain in the future, the protection against this systemic risk threating the economic systems. The compliance legal tools are more in Ex Ante than in Ex Post: risk mapping, audit, code of conduct, training, obtention of information through the chains of suppliers.

The proof to give is not the non-corruption everywhere from everyone but this concrete action of prevention and education, companies being entities helping public authorities in this global fight.

More precisely, in this definition Compliance Law is not the general obligation to obey the regulations applicable (because this is simply the definition of Law itself, applicable to everybody). Compliance Law is a very new branch of Law which exists only for some systemic “global policies” (as the title of your manifestation says) applicable only on systemic entities (large companies) in a global perspective: for instance, fighting corruption, fighting money laundering, fighting climate change, fighting discrimination between human beings.

In your example, for fighting corruption, specific legal obligations are taken, such as FCPA (with extraterritorial effects) or in French legal system the so-called the 2016 “Sapin 2” Law. These obligations don’t concern everybody: they concern entities in position to do so: large companies.

My second remark is about the burden of proof. These compliance obligation or compliance duties are obligations of means. Companies are obliged to adopt Compliance plans, organize risk mapping, and so on. A lot of them organize them through code of compliance, or code of ethic, or code of corporate social responsibility, because Compliance Law is in an intimacy with Corporate Law. Because Compliance Law is a very concrete branch of law, these disposals are adopted at the level of the group and replicated in the contracts with suppliers.

But he success of these compliance tools is only an obligation of means. For instance the supervisory authority does not require the company to have seen all the risks, in their existence or their exact quantification. In this sense, about money laundering, the French Financial Markets Authority said that the setup of these compliance tools must be “effective”, but after that the company must only do its “best efforts” to aim an “efficient” result (obligation de moyens). The French Regulatory Authority for the digital space says the same about the eradication of speeches of hate that Compliance Law oblige digital companies to fight (using the term of obligation de moyens).

Moreover, about corruption, the Commission of sanction of the French Anticorruption Agency said in a decision of July 2019 that the firm is free to choose the technics to detect and to prevent the corruption (confirming that Compliance is not just following what the Regulator says), but offered a legal certainty:  if the company just follows what the Regulators had said in its guideline (rule based compliance behavior), it is no more possible to punish it.

My third remarks could be a proposal for a more efficient system of proof. It is true that the burden of proof is on the company’s shoulders. But the object of proof is not the absence of corruption (it would not be possible…). The object of proof is the existence of due diligence to detect and prevent corruption.

Companies must prepare that, must constitute these proofs by advance.  “Due diligence” is a legal concept frequently used in Compliance Law. Regulators, supervisors, and courts ask companies to show the reality of these diligences. It would not be sufficient to present the cost of Compliance… It will be sufficient to show the effectivity of Compliance programs freely adopted, taking in consideration the guidelines released by public authorities.

Public authorities say they want to help companies to diffuse an effective “culture of compliance” : a dialogue with civil and corporate courts, not only with criminal courts would be efficient, for instance for the protection of human rights. 

In a second part of this debate, on Climate change and Compliance, Claire Pauly asked the question: "My question is two-fold: do you consider that climate change issues should be treated in the same way as corruption issues? And do you think that arbitrators are well suited to tackle those issues, by upholding the method applied to determine and demonstrate corruption issues?".

The response has been:

Firstly, on the technical similarity between fighting Corruption and fighting Climate Change in Compliance Law, it is the same perspective effectively.

If we come back to the definition of Compliance Law, the Compliance tools are organized to obtain in the future systemics results, such as no more corruption, no more money laundering, what we can name “Monumental goals”. This is a political decision: to design the future for excluding some systemic catastrophes. Corruption is an example of systemic risk; but climate change is another one.

Fighting against Climate Change is a Monumental Goal, of the same nature than fighting Corruption.

As everyone knows, we suffer of a lack of tools to address one of this fundamental challenge of our times which is climate change (more difficult than corruption...). But we are lucky to have some Compliance legal tools: we need to use them, because we have so few techniques about this Climate issue…

And Compliance Law is the more adequate branch of Law because it is an Ex-Ante branch of Law : generally, its obligations are on the future, and the Climate change drama is in the future also.

We can already see that Compliance Law is applicable to Climate Change issue

It is easy to see it through the legal techniques. 

In the French legal system, the Sapin 2 law invented in 2016 some new compliance techniques, such as risk mapping, audit, due diligence, to detect and prevent corruption.

One year after, in 2017, the so-called Loi Vigilance took the same techniques, copying exactly the legal dispositions of Sapin 2 in this law to oblige large companies to detect and to prevent violation of human rights and environmental obligation, not only inside the corporate group but also through the supply chains. The manager will be accountable for that.

On February 23, 2022, the European Commission adopted a proposal for a European Directive in the same direction of a “global policy” to impose a “corporate sustainability due diligence” on large companies, notably for fighting climate change. This new text will be effective in two years in the Internal legal systems.

By a rules-based analysis and a principle-based analysis, we can see this is the same reasoning.

Of course, this “corporate sustainability due diligence” is only an obligation of means.

But it is extremely ambitious, linked to the direct consideration of the Corporate Social Responsibility.

And I guess it will be efficient because all these tools are not only Ex Post but also Ex Ante: when the issue is to exclude the catastrophic perspective of the disappearance of the humankind on our planet, having Compliance Law, this Ex-Ante branch of law, is so precious!

Secondly, about the role of Arbitration in this issue, I am tempted to say: everyone is required in this global crucial policy!

It is quite difficult for a national court to decide on this sort of issue because Climate change is a global issue, while arbitrators are global judges.

Technically it is necessary and technically possible that Arbitration takes its place, because these due diligences about detection, prevention, action for a better Climate balance are organized non only in corporate mechanisms, such as code of conduct, corporate commitments, or manager remuneration calculation, but also a lot of contractual dispositions.

We will see a lot of new legal techniques: a lot of international public global policies will be adopted. The obligation to give information about that not only to investor but also to stakeholders will be adopted worldwide. The technique of “compliance by design” will be used on the corporate policy of fighting against Climate change.

Meanwhile, the classical branch of law, were Compliance Law steps in, will remain active, such as International Law, Corporate Law, Tort Law Contract Law, where Arbitration is so central.

So, in short, your question was: are Arbitrators able to deal with climate change issue? my response is: “oh, yes!”

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► Read the repport made by the  fait par la Paris Week of Arbitration ( on the distinction between Compliance Law and Criminal Law, and their articulation)

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Pour aller plus loin⤵️

📘Frison-Roche, M.-A. (ed), Compliance Monumental Goals, 2022.

📘Frison-Roche, M.-A. (ed), Compliance Jurisdictionalisation, 2022.

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► Full Reference: Frison-Roche, M.A.,, "Faire du Droit pour qu'à l'avenir le monde soit moins injuste" - à propos du projet de directive européenne sur le devoir de vigilance ("Making Compliance Law for a world less unfair in the future" - about the draft European directive on the corporate sustainability due diligence), interview with Olivia Dufour, Actu-Juridique,  March 24, 2022. 

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💬 read the interview (in French) 

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► Interview English Summary: This interview comments on the draft directive presented by the European Commission aimed at unifying European Union Law about Corporate Sustainability Due diligence in global supply chains to protect environnement and human rights effectively, putting companies under same legal rules. including non-European companies.

The interview emphasizes that this text and reinforces Compliance Law perspective in that the legal instruments are Ex Ante, aim at the functioning of groups, constitute incentives, and seek effectiveness to prevent violations of human rights and the environment, 80% of which taking place outside the European Union.

The goal is both ethical, for example to fight against child labor and the endangerment of people, and systemic: the promoting of a sustainable economy, through the help of companies which have some power in value chains which are global. 

This future directive clearly shows the difference between simple "conformity" (just obeying all applicable regulations...) and "compliance", illustrated here: aiming to achieve "monumental goals", here fighting against attacks on the climate balance and protect people, to obtain in the future these damages do not occur or are reduced. 

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► Full Reference: M.-A. Frison-Roche & J.-Ch. Roda, Droit de la concurrence (Competition Law), Paris, Dalloz, "Précis" Serie, 2nd ed., 2022, 842 p.

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► This second edition follows on from the first, written with Marie-Stéphane Payet.

📝read the foreword written in dedication to Marie-Stéphane (in French)

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📕read the 4th cover of the book (in French)

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► English Summary of the book: Even if reforms follow one another and upheavals are incessant, whether de facto (digital) or political (apprehension of foreign investment, controversies over objectives), the framework of Competition Law is stable, with French Law and European Law in harmony. Competition Law combines both the Law of competitive markets and the Law of relations between economic players. Its age and homogeneity increase its capacity to find solutions. This book restores the coherence and strength of Competition Law, which, once clarified, is easier to master and anticipate.

The first part therefore sets out the blocks of rules that "protect competitive markets", through mechanisms that are increasingly ex ante, not only merger control but also the control of buyer power, leading to the governance of markets by authorities working together, while sanctions for anti-competitive behaviour restore markets that have been damaged by abuse.

The second part sets out the blocks of rules that "rebalance economic relations". The tools used are often older, but their handling is no less innovative.

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📕read the table of contents of the book (in French)

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📝read the review of the book made by the Professor Walid Chaiehloudj in the Concurrences review

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► Référence complète : Frison-Roche, M.-A., L’appréhension du risque climatique par les acteurs privés : les apports du droit de la compliance, in Marta Torre-Schaub M., Lormeteau, B. et Stevignon, A.(dir.), Les risques climatiques à l’épreuve du droit Comment le droit fait-il face aux nouveaux risques engendrés par la crise climatique ? , Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I), Amphithéâtre Liard, 17 mars 2022.

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► Consulter le programme général de la manifestation

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► lire le Document de travail ayant servi de base à cette conférence : Prévention et gestion du risque climatique par le Droit de la Compliance 

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► Résumé de l'intervention : Cette intervention a été placée dans une construction qui la place comme une analyse plus particulière de ce qui serait une "insuffisante appréhension des risques climatiques par le Droit". Peut-être que le juriste estime que le Droit fait toujours une "insuffisante appréhension" de tout, parce qu'il voudrait aussi se saisir de tout, mais ne faut-il pas estimer que le Droit, ici le Droit de la Compliance ne vise pas tout, qu'il est au contraire particulièrement adéquat sur un sujet comme le Climat et qu'en la matière il fait déjà beaucoup ?

 Etant acquis qu'une société où le Droit serait tout et dicterait tout ne ferait plus place à la liberté, où les règles ne sont pas là pour nous dire à chaque instant et partout ce que nous devons faire, c'est dans ce souci-là qu'il faut trouver la bonne place que doit avoir le Droit de la Compliance, place qui tient à la définition qu'il faut donner à celui-ci.

Préalable : présentation de ce que doit être le "Droit de la Compliance"

Pour que le principe de liberté demeure il faut que le Droit de la Compliance lui-même exprime des Principes et non pas une masse réglementaire, ce qui étouffe les libertés. Si l'on réduisait le Droit de la Compliance à l'idée étroite de l'efficacité apportée à la masse réglementaire qui nous est applicable, par exemple obéir à la réglementation relative à l'environnement et au Climat, alors nous serions devant un choix dramatique : soit sauver la planète, soit sauver notre liberté. C'est parfois ainsi que l'Avenir nous est présenté.

Mais c'est supposer que le Droit de la Compliance serait défini comme l'accumulation de toutes les réglementations qui nous sont applicables et dont nous devrions montrer par avance et à tous que nous plions devant elles, devant toutes et chacune, aveuglement, le robot étant ainsi notre exemple du bon sujet de Droit de la Compliance. C'est souvent ainsi que ce qu'on appelle alors le "Droit de la Conformité" est défini : nous sommes obligés de nous conformer, et de donner à voir que nous nous conformons, et que nous nous conformons par avance, à toutes les réglementations cumulées et confondues, qui nous concernent. Par exemple celles sur le Climat. Parmi d'autres. Comme les autres. Pas moins mais pas plus. Certes nous ne serions alors pas plus libres que ne le sont les robots, mais la question du Climat pourrait être résolue ...Quelle triste perspective .... L'efficacité de la réglementation aurait donc balayé notre liberté, dont la liberté d'entreprendre n'est qu'un des modes. 

L'on voit bien que la question est avant tout une question de définition.

Plutôt que d'aller vers cet "apport catastrophique" que constituerait alors le Droit de la Compliance à la résolution des enjeux climatiques, puisqu'en échange de son efficacité nous devrions rendre nos libertés, allons vers ce qui doit être la définition du Droit de la Compliance et l'apport que ce Droit de la Compliance-là est en train d'opérer au bénéfice du risque climatique. Peut-être d'une façon insuffisante, mais d'une façon déjà considérable.

il apparaît alors que le Climat est un exemple qui va aller grandissant des Buts Monumentaux du Droit de la Compliance (I). Cela justifie l'alliance entre les Autorités politiques et les "acteurs privés" pour que l'avenir se concrétise dans un équilibre systémique, ici l'équilibre climatique (II), justifiant la mise en place de mécanismes juridiques nouveaux par rapport au Droit traditionnel. 

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► Pour aller plus loin : 

👩‍🏫📕Les buts monumentaux de la Compliance, 2022

👩‍🏫📝 Les Buts Monumentaux, cœur battant du Droit de la Compliance, 2022,

👩‍🏫🎥 Cas climatique, devoir de vigilance et pouvoirs des juges, 2021

👩‍🏫🚧 Concevoir les pouvoirs, 2022

👩‍🏫🚧 La Responsabilité Ex Ante, 2022

👩‍🏫📓Environnemental Compliance Law, as an Ex Ante Responsability, 2021

👩‍🏫📝 Rôle et place des entreprises dans la création et l'effectivité du Droit de la Compliance en cas de crise, 2022

👩‍🏫📝 Appréciation du lancement d'alerte et de l'obligation de vigilance au regard de la compétitivité internationale, 2022

👩‍🏫🎥 Devoir de vigilance des entreprises : vers un Droit de la responsabilité Ex Ante, 2021

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► Référence complète : M.-A. Frison-Roche, audition par la Commission des Lois du Sénat sur la Proposition de Loi constitutionnelle relative à l'interruption volontaire de grossesse et à la contraception, 27 septembre 2022.

►Référence complète : M.-A. Frison-Roche, Audition par la Section du Rapport et des Etudes du Conseil d'Etat pour la préparation du Rapport annuel sur Les réseaux sociaux, Conseil d'Etat, 8 mars 2022.

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►Résumé de la présentation faite avant la discussion : Pour la partie reproductible de cette audition, consistant dans la présentation qui a pu être faite de la relation entre le Droit de la Compliance et le phénomène des réseaux sociaux, il a été repris l'idée générale d'un impératif de "réguler un espace sans ancrage" et l'apport que représente pour cela le Droit de la Compliance, dès l'instant qu'il n'est pas défini comme le fait de "se conformer" à l'ensemble de la réglementation applicable à l'agent mais comme la charge d'atteindre des "Buts Monumentaux", négatifs ou/et positifs, l'opérateurs ainsi chargé de cette obligation de moyens parce qu'il est en position de le faire, devant avoir la puissance pour y parvenir.

Se dégagent alors des notions nouvelles, comme la "Responsabilité Ex Ante" ou une notion de "Pouvoir" qui est commune aux opérateurs de droit privé et de droit public, leur nationalité venant également en second plan, le Droit de la Compliance étant naturellement a-territorial. 

Cette définition substantielle du Droit de la Compliance qui met en première ligne les opérateurs requiert que ceux-ci soient supervisé (dans un continuum entre Régulation, Supervision, Compliance,) le Droit de la Compliance opérant un continuum du Droit de la Régulation en n'étant plus lié avec l'impératif d'un secteur. Les opérateurs cruciaux numériques sont ainsi "responsabilisés", grâce à une "responsabilité Ex Ante", et s'ils sont supervisés par des Autorités de supervision (dont le modèle historique est le superviseur bancaire, ici l'Arcom), c'est le juge qui a fait naitre cette nouvelle notion de "responsabilité Ex Ante, pilier du Droit de la Compliance, aujourd'hui délivré du territoire dans une jurisprudence à propos du Climat qu'il convient de concevoir plus largement.

Ainsi délivré du secteur et du territoire, le Droit de la Compliance peut affronter le mal des réseaux sociaux que sont la désinformation et l'atteinte des enfants, maux systémiques où peut se perdre la Démocratie, perspective face à laquelle l'Ex Post est inapproprié. 

Le Droit de la Compliance est donc pleinement adéquat. 

Il convient que le Juge continue sa mue en concevant lui-même non pas seulement dans un Ex Post plus rapide, mais dans un office Ex Ante, contrôlant des entreprises qui, elles-mêmes doivent avoir des fonctions des offices de gardiens (ici gardiens des limites concernant les contenus). 

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Voir ⤵️ la structure plus formelle de l'intervention, qui fut ensuite discutée

Référence complète : Laroche, B. et Boullu-Chataigner, J., Brave New Planes ou la conformité juridique de grands groupes aéronautiques face aux défis de l'intelligence artificielle, D. IP/IT, 2022, p.83.

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► Full Reference: Frison-Roche, M.-A., Duty of Vigilance, Whistleblowing and International Competitiveness, Working Paper, September 2021.

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🎤 this Working Paper is the basis for a conference , in the colloquium Effectiveness of Compliance and International Competitiveness, co-organised  by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and the Center for Law and Economics of the Panthéon-Assas University (Paris II),   November 4, 2021

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📝this Working Paper is also the basis for an article. This article is to be published ⤵

in its French version in the book 📕Les buts monumentaux de la Compliance, in the series 📚Régulations & Compliance

 in its English version in the book 📘Compliance Monumental Goals, in the series la collection 📚Compliance & Regulation

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► Working Paper Summary: The "Compliance Tools" are very diverse. If it has been chosen to study more particularly among these the obligation of vigilance and the whistleblower, these rather than others and to study them together, it is because they present in the perspective of the specific topic chosen, namely "international competitiveness", and for companies, and for economic zones considered, and for legal system inseparable from them, a uniqueness: these are mechanisms which release Information. 

By order of the law, the company will not only stop ignoring what it covered with the handkerchief that Tartuffe held out to it or that a conception of Company Law legitimately allowed it to ignore. This article does not examine if this revolution made by Compliance Law expresses in the legal system is on the one hand legitimate and on the other hand effective: the article measures what is happening at the regard to "international competitiveness".

Compliance Law is therefore be examined here through its instruments, and not in relation to its normativity. In fact, its instruments are intended to provide Information and to make this information available, in its presentation, in its intelligibility and in the hands of those who are able to use Information in perspective of the Compliance Monumental Goals, achieving them. 

Regarding this central notion of Information, international competitiveness will be more particularly concerned because Compliance Law will oblige the company itself to seek out, then expose to everyone's eyes, in particular its competitors, its weaknesses, its projects, its alliances, its flaws. This does not pose a problem if its competitors themselves are often subject to this new branch of Law, which goes far beyond transparency, which is already a new mechanism because a company is not a transparent organization and Competition Law that governs ordinary businesses never required this. But if they are not subject to this incredibly special branch of Law that is Compliance Law, then there is a distortion of competitiveness by the very fact of the Law.

It is possible to pretend that the markets like virtue, that they give it credit because they are themselves based on the idea of "promise", which is ultimately based on a moral concept, but this provision of Information to others, while others remain opaque, is a major problem of competitiveness, which the legal requirement of "loyal commercial practices" only very partially considers.

Therefore, it is necessary to first examine what is the economic and financial power of the information captured by the company on itself thank to Compliance Law making available to all but firstly to the compagny itself through the whistblowing mechanism, organised by the laws, differently in the US and Europe (I). Compliance Law also obliges companies to be accountable not only for what they do but also for what others do for them. Through the obligation of Vigilance, objective Ex Ante obligation and duty, the company obtains a power of Information on others which could well resolve what is often presented as the dispute aporetic of the extraterritoriality of Compliance Law, thus making accountable companies hitherto protected by their "preserved" legal system and thereby affected by the effectiveness of Compliance Law (II).

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► Full Reference: Frison-Roche, M.-A., coordination and moderation of the conference L'office du juge et les causes systémiques (""The Office of the Judge and systemic causes"), in Cycle of Conferences, Penser l'office du juge ("Thinking the Office of the Judge"), Grand Chamber of the Cour de cassation, Paris, May 9, 2021, 17h-19h.

The conference is held in French.

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► General presentation of the conference: the conference is based on the intervention of three judges, Christophe Soulard, Fabien Raynaud, and François Ancel, who think and debate among themselves on a hypothesis: the existence of "systemic causes". The hypothesis is that beyond and through the diversity of disputes and cases that are submitted to the most diverse judges, there is a category of cases that are systemic, which means containing in what is submitted to the judge for resolution a system.  If such a category exists, which also raises the question of the diversity of systems and the difficulty arising from their submission to rules that are not legal (for example economic, biological, financial "laws", etc.) , then the judge should take this into account, both in the procedure and in the judgment they make on the case and in the way they formulate et restitute this judgment.

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📝read the presentation of this conference by the Cour de cassation (in French)

📝read the program of the cycle of conferences 2022 (in French)

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 🎥see the conference video (in French) 

🎥 see the synthesis video of the conference, made in situ by Marie-Anne Frison-Roche (in French)  

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​✏️read the notes taken during the conference to make the synthesis (in French)

📝read the article of Marie-Anne Frison-Roche restituting this conference, published in the Recueil Dalloz (in French)

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►read the works, basis of the two interventions of Marie-Anne Frison-Roche

🚧 L'hypothèse de la "cause systémique (made before the conference to prepare it), available en English

📝Synthese of the conference (made during the conference)

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Référence complète : Berg, F., Koelberl, J.F. & Rigobon, R., Aggregate Confusion: The Divergence of ESG Ratings,2022.

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