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► Full reference : Frison-Roche, M.-A., Building by Law the Unicity of Compliance Tools from the Definition of Compliance Law by its "Monumental Goals", in Frison-Roche, M.-A. (ed.), Compliance Tools, serie "Régulations & Compliance", Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Bruylant, 2021, pp. 35-46

Summary of the article : The "tools of Compliance" do not stack on top of each other. They form a system, thanks to a unity drawn from the goals that all these multiple and different tools serve: the "Monumental Goals" by which Compliance Law is defined.

All these tools are configured by these goals and for mastering all these techniques, it is essential to put them all in perspective of what Compliance Law is, which is designed teleologically with regard to its goals. Extension of Regulatory Law and like it, Compliance Law is built on a balance between the principle of competition and other concerns that public authorities claim to take care of. Compliance Law has moreover more "pretensions" in this respect, for example in environmental matters. All the means are then good, the violence of the tools marrying without difficulty with the voluntary commitments since it is the goals which govern this branch of Law.

As legal solutions adopted show, a common method of interpretation and common levels of constraint for all Compliance Tools result from this definition. Starting from the goals (in which legal normativity is housed), the interpretation of the different tools is thus unified. Moreover, the different degrees of constraint do not operate according to the consideration of sources (traditional legal criterion) but by the goals, according to the legal distinction between obligations of means and obligations of results which result from the articulation between tools, of which the establishment is an obligation of result, and the goal, of which the achievement is only an obligation of means.

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► Référence complète : Rechtbank Den Haag (Tribunal de La Haye), 26 mai 2021, aff. C/09/571932 / HA ZA 19-379, Vereniging Milieudefensie et a. c/ Royal Dutch Shell PLC. 

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📝commentaires de la décision :

• D. 2021, pp. 1968-1970, obs. A.-M. Ilcheva
   
• EEI, nov. 2021, n° 11, comm. 86, note F.-G. Trébulle
• JSS, 14 août 2021, n° 59, p. 14, tribune C. Lepage, V. Saintaman et B. Denis
• Gaz. Pal., 27 juillet 2021, n° 28, p. 24, art. n° 424w6, note M.-P. Maître

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Référence complète: Frison-Roche, M.-A., La place des entreprises dans la création et l'effectivité du Droit de la Compliance en cas de crise in  (dir.) Les normes publiques et la Compliance en temps de crise : les buts monumentaux à l'épreuve, colloque coorganisé par le Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) et la Faculté de droit de Montpellier, 17 mai 2021.

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Ce colloque s'insère dans le cycle de colloques 2021 organisé par le Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) et ses partenaires autour des Buts monumentaux de la Compliance.

Les interventions serviront de première base à la réalisation d'un ouvrage dirigé par Marie-Anne Frison-Roche, dont la version française, Les Buts monumentaux de la Compliance,  est co-éditée par le JoRC et Dalloz et dont la version anglaise, Compliance Monumental Goals, est co-éditée par le JoRC et Bruylant. 

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Résumé de la conférence : Il s'agit d'observer la façon dont les entreprises agissent lorsque la crise advient et l'impact produit sur les "Buts Monumentaux de la Compliance". Il apparaît que les entreprises ont aidé, soit sur l'ordre des Autorités publiques, soit de leur propre initiative. Toute "épreuve" étant une "preuve", la leçon à tirer de la preuve sanitaire est à retirer face à la crise environnementale dont nous sommes déjà informés.

La crise montre la place et le rôle des entreprises pour que tout d'abord survive l'effectivité du Droit de la Compliance par le souci maintenu de ses buts, grâce à l'aide requise ou spontanée des entreprises.

Mais plus encore l'on a pu observer des entreprises actives en raison de leur "position" pour des buts qui n'étaient pas les leurs, comme l'environnement. L'on retrouve alors la définition générale du Droit de la Compliance comme l'alliance en Ex Ante entre Autorités publiques et opérateurs privés cruciaux, pour maîtriser le futur. Ce sont les juges qui les assignent à cette alliance, ici et maintenant.  La crise sanitaire en accélère la construction.

Full Reference: Frison-Roche, M.-A. Place and Role of Companies in the Creation and Effectiveness of Compliance Law in Crisis, Working Paper, May 2021. 

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This Working Paper has been elaborated as basis for a conference in the colloquium of Mai 17, 2021 (done in French: Normes publiques et Compliance en temps de crise : les buts monumentaux à l'épreuve.

This video is made with English substitutes. 

It is also the basis for an article in the book Compliance Monumental Goals, the English version of which is co-published by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Bruylant.

Summary: This article has a very topic: the place of private Companies, with regard to the chapter's issue: "the ordeal of a crisis". The crisis constitutes a "test", that is to say, it brings evidence. Let us take it as such.

Indeed, during the health crisis, it appears that Companies have helped the Public Authorities to resist the shock, to endure and to get out of the Crisis. They did so by force, but they also took initiatives in this direction. From this too, we must learn lessons for the next crisis that will come. It is possible that this has already started in the form of another global and systemic crisis: the environmental crisis. In view of what we have been able to observe and the evolution of the Law, of the standards adopted by the Authorities but also by the new case law, what can we expect from Companies in the face of this next Crisis, willingly and strength 

Lire ci-dessous les développements.

► Référence complète : A. Beckers, , "L’image juridique évolutive des chaînes de valeur mondiales", Introduction au numéro spéciale les Chaines de Valeur mondiales, Revue internationale de droit économique, 2021, t. XXXV(4), 5-18.

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► Référence complète : D. Cabrelli, , "Cartographie du déficit de responsabilité des sociétés transnationales de la Common Law pour les violations des droits de l'homme et des normes du travail à l'étranger", in n° spéc. les Chaines de Valeur mondiales, Revue internationale de droit économique, 2021, t. XXXV(4), 

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► Full Reference: M.-A. Frison-Roche, "La formation : contenu et contenant de la Compliance" ("Training: content and container of Compliance"), in M.-A. Frison-Roche (ed.), Les outils de la Compliance, coll. "Régulations & Compliance", Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Dalloz, 2021, pp.. 227-244.

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► Summary of the article (done by the Journal of Regulation and Compliance): Firstly, as Training is a specific Compliance tool, it is supervised by Regulators. It becomes mandatory when it is contained in Compliance programs or sanction decisions. Since effectiveness and efficiency are legal requirements, what is the margin of companies to design them and how to measure the result?

Secondly, as long as each Compliance tool includes, more and more, an educational dimension, we can take each of them to identify this perspective. So even condemnations and prescriptions are so many lessons, lessons given, lessons to be followed. The question is then to know who, in this so pedagogical Compliance Law, are the "teachers"?

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► Full Reference : S. Koenigsberg and Fr. Barrière, "La construction de l'expertise de l'avocat en matière de Compliance" ("The development of attorney's Compliance expertise"), in M.-A. Frison-Roche (ed.), Les outils  de la Compliance, coll. "Régulations & Compliance", Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Dalloz, 2021, p. 141-146.

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► Summary of the article (done by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance): The authors observe that many law firms are now developing expertise in compliance, either in departments or in teams. They emphasize that this expertise is achieved through specialization, which makes it possible to support companies, in Ex Ante (for example in mergers) and in Ex Post (in litigation) in continuum between the two. Moreover, this expertise is built in a collaborative way between the team of lawyers and the company concerned, which reinforces this necessary continuity.

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General reference : Frison-Roche, M.-A. (ed.), Les outils  de la Compliance, series "Régulations & Compliance", Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) & Dalloz, 2021.

In parallel, the book is published in an English version Compliance Tools, co-edited by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Bruylant. 

This book follows a cycle of conferences organized by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance and by its partner universities. 

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See the collection Regulation & Compliance in which the book has been published. 

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General presentation of the book : The political dimension of Compliance Law resides in the monumental goals that it aims for and which define it. These goals are internalized in "crucial operators", who willingly or by force must structure themselves and act to achieve "monumental goals", as set by public authorities and which may coincide with the interests of the enterprise. This one designs and controls the Ex Ante reorganization that this implies, under the public authorities supervision. Enterprises, even if their activities are not regulated, thus become transparent and must show the Compliance Tools effectively deployed to effectively achieve these goals. It is a major transformation of economic life in all countries because the Compliance Tools are adopted everywhere and have a global effect.

These appear to be very diverse but their unity is profound and bringing it out has the practical benefit of producing a legal regime that is as unified as possible, while allowing their adaptation country by country, sector by sector, enterprise by enterprise. 

This book aims to understand these Compliance Tools to better anticipate the assessment that will be made by Regulators, Supervisors and Courts, as well as the new conceptions of the authors of legal texts which impose new ones every day, while companies must also imagine the most appropriate Compliance Tools.

This collective work specifically apprehends those on which we have few studies when we handle them on a daily basis, such as risk mapping or training or rights, letting more familiar tools shine through more transversal contributions, such as compliance programs, sanctions, whistleblowing or many sorts of settlements, agreements of public interest.

A first chapter takes a legal and economic approach. A second chapter emphasizes the role of risk mapping. A third chapter draws the game of incentives. A fourth chapter identifies the expertise required. A fifth chapter insists on geographic significance. A sixth chapter details the measurement of effectiveness. A seventh chapter explores training. The eighth chapter examines technological tools. The concluding article leads to rights.

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Read the general presentation of the book, including the table of contents and the introduction (in French).

Read the presentations of the articles of the book :

• Amico, Th., La Compliance ou le passage de l'ex post à l'ex ante: une révision copernicienne pour l'avocat pénaliste ?

• Banck, A., La maturité de l’usager de l’outil de la Compliance, premier critère du choix de l’outil adéquat

• Benzoni, L., and Deffains, B., Approche économique des outils de la Compliance: finalités, effectivité et mesure de la Compliance "subie" et "choisie"

• Burlingame, R., Coppens, KK, Power, N. & Lee, D.H., Compliance : lutte internationale contre la corruption et gestion du risque

• Calandri, L., Incitation(s) et autorégulation(s): quelle place pour le Droit de la Compliance dans le secteur audiovisuel?

• Causse, H., La formation en Compliance, par et au-delà de la formation classique

• Frison-Roche, M.-A., Décrire, concevoir et corréler les outils de la Compliance, pour en faire un usage adéquat

• Frison-Roche, Construire juridiquement l'unité des outils de la Compliance à partir de la définition du droit de la Compliance par ses "buts monumentaux"

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• Frison-Roche, M.-A., Compliance et incitations, un couple à propulser

• Frison-Roche, M.-A., Résoudre la contradiction entre incitations et sanctions sous le feu du Droit de la Compliance

• Frison-Roche, M.-A., Dresser des cartographie des risques comme obligation et le paradoxe des "risques de conformité"

• Frison-Roche, M.-A., Compliance : contenu et contenant du Droit de la Compliance 

• Frison-Roche, M.-A., Les droits subjectifs, outils premiers et naturels du Droit de la Compliance

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• Galland, M., Le contrôle par le Régulation de l'effectivité des instruments de compliance

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• ​Granier, C., L'originalité normative de la Compliance by design

• Guillaume, N., Cartographie des risques de compliance : premiers aperçus des enjeux,des limites et des bonnes pratiques

• Gutierriez-Crespin, A., L’audit du dispositif de compliance : un outil clé pour en vérifier la robustesse

• Koenigsberg, S. et Barrière, Fr, La construction de l'expertise de l'avocat en matière de compliance

• Larouer, M., Les manifestations des mécanismes incitatifs dans le Droit français de la Compliance

• Merabet, S., La morale by design

• Pailler, L., Les outils technologiques, la Compliance by Design et le RGPD: la protection des données personnelles dès la conception

• Racine, J.-B., La prégnance géographique dans le choix et l'usage des outils de la Compliance

• Rapp, L., Théorie des incitations et gouvernance des activités spatiales

• ​Roda, J.-C., Compliance by Design en antitrust: entre innovation et illusion

• Salah, M., Conception et application de la Compliance en Afrique

• Tardieu, H., Souveraineté des données et Compliance

• Thouret, T., Formation et Compliance, deux outils corrélés de transmission d'information

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► Full Reference : J.-B. Racine, "Propos introductifs. La prégnance géographique dans le choix et l'usage des outils de la Compliance" ("Introductory remarks. Geographical dominance in the choice of Compliance Tools"), in M.-A. Frison-Roche (ed.), Les outils de la Compliance, coll. "Régulations & Compliance", Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Dalloz, 2021, p. 157-164.

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► Summary of the article (done by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance): The author correlates Compliance Law and "Global Law" and underlines the balance of power that the former expresses, in particular on the part of the United States and even if it therefore "tends to become universal" , the particularities remain, if only in the implementation.

Focusing more particularly on "Compliance Tools", a comparison is made between several contributions of the volume, to establish that, in a definitive and desirable way, the Compliance mechanisms include both a global dimension and a local dimension.

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► Full Reference: M.-A. Frison-Roche, "Dresser des cartographies des risques comme obligation et le paradoxe des "risques de conformité"" ("Drawing up risk maps as an obligation and the paradoxe of the "compliance risks""), in M.-A. Frison-Roche (ed.), Les outils de la Compliance, coll. "Régulations & Compliance", Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Dalloz, 2021, p. 53-62.

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► Summary of the article (done by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance): There are few synthetic or theoretical studies on Risk Mapping even though it is in fact the Compliance central tool, perhaps because it is more a management tool than a legal one. Risk Mapping is often described but does not receive any other legal qualifications than being a "modality", suffering in this respect from an evil which affects the whole of Compliance, still little understood by Law, attention often so focused on the Ex Post (sanctions) while Compliance is by nature in the Ex Ante. Going from disarray to incomprehension, everyone can note the existence of "compliance risks" among the mapped risks, because if as so many affirm that it would be necessary to speak only of simple conformity as obedience, demonstrated in Ex Ante, to Law, how a sub-set of a tool would therefore have the same object as the set of Law that this tool serves ... This aporia can only be resolved if Compliance Law is defined substantially by its "monumental goals" which exceed obedience to regulations.

Consequently, Law taking up Risk Mapping, this mechanism may first appear as an ancillary obligation to the main obligation consisting in achieving "monumental goals". The ancillary obligation to draw up the maps is an obligation of result, while the main obligation to achieve the monumental goals is an obligation of means. These cartographies being very diverse and being only occasionally targeted by specific laws, it can also constitute only a legal fact or, through the play of various charters, a unilateral legal commitment. But it isnbecoming the basis of an autonomous legal obligation incumbent on enterprises in position to know certain risks, obligation referring to the existence of a subjective right tof knowing and measuring them ("right to be worried") which the third parties who are going to run them would hold, thus allowing them to choose to run them, or not.

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► Full Reference: Th. Thouret, "Formation et Compliance, deux outils corrélés de transmission d'information" ("Training and Compliance, two correlated information transmission tools"), in M.-A. Frison-Roche (ed.), Les outils de la Compliance, coll. "Régulations & Compliance", Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Dalloz, 2021, p. 245-254.

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► Summary of the article (done by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance): The author is based on the fact that in general Compliance Law aims to circulate information and that training, by nature, is a process for transmitting information, to bring the two together.

Insofar as Compliance Law internalizes in "crucial operators" the obligation to circulate information (within it, vis-à-vis its stakeholders and the authorities, but also between crucial operators) , it is therefore logical that they develop training programs, not in an adjacent way but in a main way, because of this identity.

Indeed, training is a means of obtaining that information is "well received", that is to say understood, assimilated and used by its recipient for what it was transmitted. The regulatory and supervisory authorities therefore control the effectiveness of obtaining this effect.

The author finally takes two examples, one of spontaneous adoption of a Compliance training program, operated by Total group, the other of forced adoption, operated by Johnson & Johnson group, to illustrate its general demonstration.

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► Full Reference: M. Galland, "Le contrôle par le régulateur de l’effectivité des instruments de Compliance mis en place par l’entreprise", in M.-A. Frison-Roche (ed.), Les outils de la Compliance, coll. "Régulations & Compliance", Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Dalloz, 2021, p. 195-208.

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► Summary of the article (done by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance): The author underlines the complexity of the measure of the effectivity of compliance tools because the measure of the risks cannot be mechanical, the exercise is a cost whose the advantage does not appear immediately, the essential is in the behaviors that the firm masters with difficulty while these are results that are evaluated, because Compliance tools must be effective and produce tangible results. 

To do that, the regulator intervenes in Ex Ante in order to the applicable texts are understandable by the firm and in order to the tool is working. When a noncompliance occurs, the regulator must beyond the sanction build on this measure of ineffectiveness to lead operators to improve their systems. Thus, it is in terms of "Compliance effort" that the regulator's control works, especially through the observation of an "embodied exemplarity". 

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► Full Reference: M.-A. Frison-Roche, "Décrire, concevoir et corréler les outils de la Compliance, pour en faire un usage adéquat" ("Describing, conceiving and correlating Compliance Tools, in order to use them adequately"), in M.-A. Frison-Roche (ed.), Les outils de la Compliance, coll. Régulations & Compliance, Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Dalloz, 2021, p. 3-24.

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► Summary of the article (done by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance): The article is the general introduction to the book on Compliance tools. In its first part it develops the overall problematic. In its second part, it presents each of the contributions, placed in the overall construction of the work.

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► Full Reference: M.-A. Frison-Roche, "Compliance et incitations: un couple à propulser " ("Compliance and incentives : a promising tandem"), in M.-A. Frison-Roche (ed.), Les outils de la Compliance, coll. "Régulations & Compliance", Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Dalloz, 2021, p. 123-130.

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► Summary of the article (done by the Journal of Regulation and Compliance): The theory of incentives targets the mechanisms which do not use directly constraint (except to present sanctions themselves as incentives) but which leads nevertheless to expected behaviors. To appreciate the links which must or must not be done between incentives and Compliance, we should proceed in two times. 

First, the association appears natural between incentive mechanisms and "Compliance Law" since the later is defined in a dynamic way. Indeed, if it is defined placing its legal normativity in its "monumental goals", as the end of corruption, the detection of money laundering in order to underlying criminality disappears, or as the effective protection of environment or the concrete care of human beings, then what matters is not the means in themselves but the effective tension towards these "monumental goals". In this perspective, what was related to public policies led by States, because they are definitively not able to do it, the charge is internalized in the firms which are able to tend towards this goals: "crucial operators" because they have the geographical, technological, informational and financial means. 

In this perspective, the internalization of public willingness provoking a split with the concept of State linked to a territory which deprives Politics of its constraint power, incentive mechanisms appear as the most efficient mean to reach these monumental goals. They appear as this "natural" mean both negatively and positively defined. Negatively in which they do not need in Ex Ante institutional localizable sources and sanction power in Ex Post: it is enough to substitute the interest to obligation. Positively, incentives relay through operators' strategies what was the so critical and joked form of public action: the "plan". The duration is thus injected thanks to Compliance mechanisms, as we can see it through the development of it in the care for environment ("plan climat") or through the educational mechanism, which could be conceived only in duration.  

However, the opposition seems radical between Compliance Law and Incentives. And this because of three convictions often developed and that we have to overcome. First, the idea that in a general way, there would be a Law only if there is a mechanism of immediate constraint which is associated to the norm. As long as the incentive is not based on obligation, then it will be nothing... Secondly, and as if that were a kind of consolation ..., Compliance would not be really Law either ... We so often say that it is only about a methodology, a range of processes without sense, procedures to follow without trying to understand, process that algorithms integrate in a mechanic without end and without sense or that on the contrary, Compliance would be full of sense by Ethics and Morality, which are far from Law. While incentives talk to the human spirit which calculate, Compliance would be so a process through which machines will be connected to other machines, so an extra soul, where calculation has no place... Thirdly, solutions would be to be find in Competition Law because it can do without States, submit them and approach what is a-sectorial, especially finance and digital, the world being financialized and digitalized. The violence of Competition Law which comes in Ex Ante thanks to "Compliance sanctions" applying for example to essential infrastructures Law, by continuing to deny the salience of the duration and taking care of the "market power" would be also not compatible with a marriage with incentive mechanisms which rely on duration and power of those to which it is applied, converging towards goals, which are set by what Competition Law ignores: the project. This project which pretends to build the future is the one of politics and of companies, which use their deployed power in time to concretize it. It is without any doubt there that the future of Europe is. 

To overcome this triple difficulty, it is thus necessary, in a second time, to modify our conception of Law, especially thanks to Compliance Law, in which this new branch is autonomous from Competition Law, and even sometimes opposed to it, in order to the insertion of incentive mechanisms permit to unknown or against Competition Law organizations to reach "monumental goals" which are imperative to take into consideration. For example, the taking into consideration of climate challenges or the building of a sovereign identity of the data. This is expressly set by European Commission which supervises such initiatives, supervision being what is articulated with Compliance, in a couple that go beyond Regulation, and replaces in Ex Ante Competition Law, salient branch for Ex Post. All the texts which are in the process of expressing it are based on this reformed couple: Compliance and Incentive.

This couple supposes that we recognize as such the existence of companies as project carriers, project which is the creation of marketed wealth circulating on a market, which could be an industrial project specific to a geographical zone both economical and political. Regulation is deployed to go away from the notion of sector and to transform itself in supervision of crucial firms in the correspondance between the project and the action, what refers to the notion of "plan". In this, banking supervision is just the advanced bastion of all thematic, energetic, climatic and health plans, or more broadly industrial and technological that could by incentive be implemented, this conception of Compliance permitting to build zones which are not reduced to immediate market exchange. The incentive corresponds to the fact that Compliance Law relies on the power of the firm to reach its own political goals, for example fighting against disinformation in the digital space or obtaining a healthy environnement. This supposes that Compliance stops to be only conceived as a model of rules effectivity, for example of Competition Law, to be recognized as a substantial branch of Law. A branch which expresses political goals. A branch which is anchored in crucial firms whose it recognizes the autonomy with regards to markets. This makes it possible, in particular through the coupling with incentive mechanisms leading to long-term collaborative operations supervised by public authorities, not to be governed by simple Competition Law, inapt to bring projects to fruition.

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► Full Reference: C. Granier, "L’originalité normative de la Compliance by design" ("The normative originality of Compliance by design"), in M.-A. Frison-Roche (ed.), Les outils de la Compliance, coll. "Régulations & Compliance", Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Dalloz, 2021, p. 267-278.

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► Full Reference: M.-A. Frison-Roche, "Les droits subjectifs, outils premiers et naturels du Droit de la Compliance" ("Rights, primary and natural Compliance Tools"), in M.-A. Frison-Roche (ed.), Les outils de la Compliance, coll. "Régulations & Compliance", Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Dalloz, 2021, p. 301-323.

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► Summary of this article (done by the Journal of Regulation and Compliance): In the traditional conception of the architecture of the sectors regulated by Law, and in Compliance Law which extends the regulatory techniques, rights have little place. But this configuration no longer takes place; on the contrary, rights are at the center of Regulatory and Compliance systems, and will be more and more so. They are and will be the primary tools of Compliance Law because they constitute a very effective "tool" to ensure the entire functioning of a system whose goals are so difficult to achieve. Because every effort must be done to achieve these goals, the public authorities not only rely on the power of crucial operators, but also distribute prerogatives to people and organizations who, thus encouraged, activate the Compliance system and participate in the achievement of the "monumental goal". Rights can prove to be the most effective tools for actually achieving the goals set, so much so that they can be seen as "primary tools".

But it is pertinent to have more pretension and to conceive rights as the most "natural" tools of Compliance Law. Indeed because all the Monumental Goals by which Compliance Law is defined can be expressed by the protection of persons, that is to say to the effectiveness of their prerogatives, by a mirror effect between rights. given as tools by Law by to persons and rights which constitute the very goal of all Compliance Law, in particular the protection of all human beings, even if they are in a situation of great weakness, rights becoming a "natural tool" of Compliance Law.

We are only at the beginning of their deployment and it is undoubtedly on them that Digital space in which we now live would be regulated, so that we will not suffocated there and that it will constitute for people a civilized space.

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► Full Reference: A. Banck, "La maturité de l’utilisateur d'un outil de Compliance, premier critère du choix de l’outil adéquat" ("The maturity of the Compliance Tool’s user, first criterion of the choice of the salient tool"), in M.-A. Frison-Roche (ed.), Les outils de la Compliance, coll. "Régulations & Compliance", Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Dalloz, 2021, p. 209-212.

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► Summary of the article (done by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance): The author insists on the practical necessity for the firm to show immediately the documents attesting of the reality of Compliance mechanisms. IT tools helps companies to do that, but the crucial point is that everyone in the firm appropriates these tools. 

To obtain it, it is necessary that the Compliance officer does not necessarily choose the tool which suits him or her best and pleases him or her the most but rather suits the one who will handle it, for example commercial teams on the ground, monitoring that the tool integrates the specificity of the sector and of the firm. The adjustment of the softwares must meet a maturity of its users in the firm, which must have a "culture of compliance" to take advantage of its tools. Thus more rudimental tools can be more efficient if the culture of Compliance is still weak, sophisticated tools could be unuseful if a prior minimum basis is not reach. 

The author thus shows the link to be made between the maturity of the users and the technicality of the tools, the two having to progress together.

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► Full Reference: M.-A. Frison-Roche, "Approche juridique des outils de la Compliance. Construire juridiquement  l'unité des outils de la Compliance à partir de la définition du Droit de la Compliance par ses "buts monumentaux"" ("Legal approach to Compliance Tools. Building by Law the Unicity of Compliance Tools from the definition of Compliance Law by its "Monumental Goals""), in  M.-A. Frison-Roche, (ed.), Les outils de la Compliance, coll. "Régulations & Compliance", Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Dalloz, 2021, p. 27-38.

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► Summary of the article (done by the Journal of Regulation and Compliance): The "tools of Compliance" do not stack on top of each other. They form a system, thanks to a unity drawn from the goals that all these multiple and different tools serve: the "Monumental Goals" by which Compliance Law is defined.

All these tools are configured by these goals and for mastering all these techniques, it is essential to put them all in perspective of what Compliance Law is, which is designed teleologically with regard to its goals. Extension of Regulatory Law and like it, Compliance Law is built on a balance between the principle of competition and other concerns that public authorities claim to take care of. Compliance Law has moreover more "pretensions" in this respect, for example in environmental matters. All the means are then good, the violence of the tools marrying without difficulty with the voluntary commitments since it is the goals which govern this branch of Law.

As legal solutions adopted show, a common method of interpretation and common levels of constraint for all Compliance Tools result from this definition. Starting from the goals (in which legal normativity is housed), the interpretation of the different tools is thus unified. Moreover, the different degrees of constraint do not operate according to the consideration of sources (traditional legal criterion) but by the goals, according to the legal distinction between obligations of means and obligations of results which result from the articulation between tools, of which the establishment is an obligation of result, and the goal, of which the achievement is only an obligation of means.

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► Full Reference: M.-A. Frison-Roche (ed.), Les outils de la Compliance, coll. "Régulations & Compliance", Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) & Dalloz, 2021, 323 p.

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📘In parallel, the English version of this book, Compliance Tools, is published in the collection co-published by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC)  and Bruylant. 

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📅This book comes after a cycle of colloquia organised by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and its Academic Partners. 

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This volume is the continuation of the books dedicated to Compliance in this collection.

📚Read the other books ' presentations of the collection about Compliance:

📕M.-A. Frison-Roche (dir.), L'obligation de compliance, 2025

📕M.-A. Frison-Roche et M. Boissavy (dir.), Compliance & Droit de la défense, 2024

📕 M.-A. Frison-Roche (ed.), La juridictionnalisation de la Compliance, 2023

📕 M.-A. Frison-Roche (ed.), Les Buts Monumentaux de la Compliance, 2022

📕 M.-A. Frison-Roche (ed.), Pour une Europe de la Compliance, 2019

📕 N. Borga, J.-Cl. Marin, J.-Ch. Roda (ed.), Compliance : l'Entreprise, le Régulateur et le Juge, 2018

📕 M.-A. Frison-Roche (ed.), Régulation, Supervision, Compliance, 2017

📕 M.-A. Frison-Roche (ed.), Internet, espace d'interrégulation, 2016

📚Read the presentations of the other titles of the collection.

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► General presentation of the book: The political dimension of Compliance Law resides in the monumental goals that it aims for and which define it. These goals are internalized in "crucial operators", who willingly or by force must structure themselves and act to achieve "monumental goals", as set by public authorities and which may coincide with the interests of the enterprise. This one designs and controls the Ex Ante reorganization that this implies, under the public authorities supervision. Enterprises, even if their activities are not regulated, thus become transparent and must show the Compliance Tools effectively deployed to effectively achieve these goals. It is a major transformation of economic life in all countries because the Compliance Tools are adopted everywhere and have a global effect.

These appear to be very diverse but their unity is profound and bringing it out has the practical benefit of producing a legal regime that is as unified as possible, while allowing their adaptation country by country, sector by sector, enterprise by enterprise. 

This book aims to understand these Compliance Tools to better anticipate the assessment that will be made by Regulators, Supervisors and Courts, as well as the new conceptions of the authors of legal texts which impose new ones every day, while companies must also imagine the most appropriate Compliance Tools.

This collective work specifically apprehends those on which we have few studies when we handle them on a daily basis, such as risk mapping or training or rights, letting more familiar tools shine through more transversal contributions, such as compliance programs, sanctions, whistleblowing or many sorts of settlements, agreements of public interest.

A first chapter takes a legal and economic approach. A second chapter emphasizes the role of risk mapping. A third chapter draws the game of incentives. A fourth chapter identifies the expertise required. A fifth chapter insists on geographic significance. A sixth chapter details the measurement of effectiveness. A seventh chapter explores training. The eighth chapter examines technological tools. The concluding article leads to rights.

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► Understand the book through the Table of Contents and the summaries of each article:

INTRODUCTION 

🕴️M.-A. Frison-Roche, 📝Décrire, concevoir et corréler les outils de la compliance, pour en faire un usage adéquat

I. APPROCHES JURIDIQUE ET ÉCONOMIQUE DES OUTILS DE LA COMPLIANCE (LEGAL AND ECONOMIC APPROACHES TO COMPLIANCE TOOLS)

🕴️M.-A. Frison-Roche, 📝Approche juridique des outils de la compliance. Construire juridiquement l'unité des outils de la compliance à partir de la définition du Droit de la compliance par ses "buts monumentaux"

🕴️L. Benzoni et 🕴️B. Deffains, 📝Approche économique des outils de la compliance : finalité, mesure, effectivité de la compliance "subie" et "choisie"

II. LA CARTOGRAPHIE DES RISQUES, OUTIL CENTRAL DE LA COMPLIANCE (RISK MAPPING, CENTRAL COMPLIANCE TOOL)

🕴️M.-A. Frison-Roche, 📝Dresser des cartographies des risques comme obligation et le paradoxe des "risques de conformité"

🕴️N. Guillaume, 📝Cartographie des risques de compliance. Premiers aperçus des enjeux, des limites et des bonnes pratiques

III. PLACE ET MANIEMENT DES INCITATIONS DANS LES SYSTÈMES DE COMPLIANCE (PLACE AND USE OF INCENTIVES IN COMPLIANCE SYSTEMS)

🕴️L. Rapp, 📝Théorie des incitations et gouvernance des activités spatiales

🕴️M.-A. Frison-Roche, 📝Résoudre la contradiction entre "sanction" et "incitation" sous le feu du Droit de la compliance

🕴️M. Larouer, 📝La manifestation des mécanismes incitatifs dans le droit français de la compliance

🕴️H. Tardieu, 📝Souveraineté des données et compliance

🕴️L. Calandri, 📝Incitation(s) et autorégulation(s) : quelle place pour le droit de la compliance dans le secteur audiovisuel?

🕴️M.-A. Frison-Roche, 📝Compliance et incitations : un couple à propulser

IV. LES EXPERTISES REQUISES EN MATIÈRE DE COMPLIANCE (THE REQUIRED EXPERTISES IN TERMS OF COMPLIANCE)

🕴️A. Gutierrez-Crespin, 📝L’audit du dispositif de compliance : un outil clé pour en vérifier la robustesse

🕴️S. Koenigsberg et 🕴️Fr. Barrière, 📝La construction de l'expertise de l'avocat en matière de compliance

🕴️Th. Amico, 📝La Compliance ou le passage de l'ex post à l'ex ante. Une révolution copernicienne pour l'avocat pénaliste ?

V. LA PRÉGNANCE GÉOGRAPHIQUE DES OUTILS DE LA COMPLIANCE (THE GEOGRAPHICAL DOMINANCE OF COMPLIANCE TOOLS)

🕴️J.-B. Racine, 📝Propos introductifs. La prégnance géographique dans le choix et l'usage des outils de la compliance

🕴️M. M. Salah, 📝Conception et application de la compliance en Afrique

🕴️R. Burlingame, 🕴️K. Coppens, N. Power et 🕴️D.H. Lee, 📝Compliance : lutte internationale contre la corruption et gestion des risques

VI. LA MESURE DE L'EFFECTIVITÉ DES OUTILS DE LA COMPLIANCE (THE MEASURE OF COMPLIANCE TOOLS EFFECTIVITY)

🕴️M. Galland, 📝Le contrôle par le régulateur de l'effectivité des instruments de compliance mis en place par l'entreprise

🕴️A. Banck, 📝La maturité de l’utilisateur d'un outil de compliance, premier critère du choix de l’outil adéquat

VII. LA FORMATION, ALPHA ET OMÉGA DE LA COMPLIANCE (TRAINING, ALPHA AND OMEGA OF COMPLIANCE)

🕴️H. Causse, 📝La compliance : par et au-delà de la formation juridique classique

🕴️M.-A. Frison-Roche, 📝La formation : contenu et contenant de la compliance

🕴️Th. Thouret, 📝Formation et compliance : deux outils corrélés de transmission d'information

VIII. LES OUTILS TECHNOLOGIQUES ET LA COMPLIANCE BY DESIGN (TECHNOLOGICAL TOOLS AND COMPLIANCE BY DESIGN)

🕴️J.-Ch. ​Roda, 📝La compliance by design en antitrust : entre innovation et illusion

🕴️C. Granier, 📝L'originalité normative de la compliance by design

🕴️L. Pailler, 📝Les outils technologiques, la compliance by design et le RGPD : la protection des données dès la conception

🕴️S. Merabet, 📝La morale by design

CONCLUSION

🕴️M.-A. Frison-Roche, 📝Les droits subjectifs, outils premiers et naturels du Droit de la compliance

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► Full Reference : Th. Amico, "La Compliance ou le passage de l'ex post à l'ex ante. Une révolution copernicienne pour l'avocat pénaliste ?" ("Compliance or the passage from ex post to ex ante: a Compernican revolution for the criminal lawyer?"), in M.-A. Frison-Roche (ed.), Les outils de la Compliance, coll. "Régulations & Compliance", Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Dalloz, 2021, p. 145-154.

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► Summary of the article (done by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance): After referring to various definitions of Compliance Law, the author insists on the usefulness of the criminal lawyer in that he, familiar with the Ex-Post that constitutes the sanction, can be of good advice. in the Ex-Ante in which new compliance mechanisms are being developed, such as risk mapping or third-party assessment.

Addressing the punitive dimension of Compliance Law, the author shows that the criminal lawyer therefore naturally has a place there, whether it concerns the powers exercised by an administrative authority or the criminal law itself. In that he can "anticipate criminal proceedings", the criminal lawyer is therefore best able to ensure that the company does not expose itself to them, in particular in a good mastery of internal investigations, thus ruling out the criminal risk.

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