The Covid 19 crisis has prompted various European governments to hastily review their policies for foreign direct investment control. On 25 March 2020, the President of the European Commission called on Member States to protect their security and economic sovereignty and to “preserve EU companies and critical assets, notably in areas such as health, medical…
Over the past two months, the health crisis and the lockdown associated with the Covid-19 have profoundly changed the employment world (home office; production shutdown and site closures, introduction of safety rules to protect the health of employees and limit the spread of the epidemic, etc.). Although the French government has announced a gradual end…
International arbitration proceedings, by definition, allow parties to settle their disputes worldwide. In particular, they allow parties from different jurisdictions and with different legal backgrounds to do so. With a constantly growing number of international arbitration matters over the last decades, cases in which parties with a common law background faced parties with a civil…
By order n° 2017-1387 of 22 September 2017, the government established a scale to evaluate the compensation that a company must pay to an employee if his/her dismissal is declared to be without real and serious grounds. By virtue of this said “Macron” scale, the amount of compensation granted by judges must obligatorily fall between…
In a quick succession, two recently adopted legislations will boost the transition towards more environmentally friendly C&I buildings. A brief insight. I. New standards for energy efficiency in “tertiary” buildings As for buildings in the “tertiary” sector (which includes hotels, shopping centres, office buildings), the Decree of July 23, 2019 “regarding the duties…
If it is an advantage for authors, it is also a headache for businesses on a daily basis, and it is imperative to be vigilant when acquiring or assigning rights regarding a work, from or to a third party or for the creations and inventions of an employee. In fact, the conditions for assigning copyrights…
As part of the modernisation of the French justice system, on 7 February 2018, an appeal body has been set up for the International Chamber of the Paris Commercial Court at the Paris Court of Appeal.[1] At the beginning of year 2018, multilingual judges were appointed at the International Chamber of the Paris Court of…
1. The implementation of the Social and Economic Committee to replace the existing bodies A single and mandatory body for all companies After a number of successive reforms of the social dialogue, the French system, involving multiple staff representative bodies, (D.P, C.H.S.C.T, C.E) will have completely disappeared by the end of 2019. Although, until now,…
The demonstrations of the “yellow vests” movement, initially focusing on the increase of environmental taxes on fuel, and recent demonstrations for Climate have again brought the environmental and energy issues into the bright light of public debate. Some weeks before protests and marches began, the French Government had unveiled the main directions of the “multiannual programming…
1. The introduction of a so-called “mini tax law abuse” for transactions whose “main” purpose is tax related Art. 109 of the Finance Act for 2019 introduces a new so-called “mini tax law abuse” procedure, designed to enable tax authorities to exclude tax optimisation schemes which principally pursue a tax objective under Art. L. 64 A of the Tax…