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France and the new EU regulation on political advertising: the CNIL updates its doctrine ahead of the 2025 implementation

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Online political advertising has become central to modern electoral campaigns. However, the growing lack of transparency, particularly regarding funding, targeting, and data processing practices, raises serious concerns about...more

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Too Hot to Work? France Introduces New Heatwave Law

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Against the backdrop of climate change and the increasing health and safety challenge of preventing heat-related risks at work, France has introduced a new decree reinforcing the obligations on employers to prevent these...more

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New VAT Guidelines on Company Vehicles for Employees

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The French tax authorities have issued new guidelines on the VAT treatment of company cars provided to employees. When a vehicle is provided for a defined consideration, it is considered a taxable service. This includes...more

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What’s Next for French Offshore Wind Power? Blowin’ in the Wind

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Is stormy weather on the horizon for the offshore wind energy industry? The combination of rising supply costs, increased interest rates and significant execution risk has hurt the profitability of projects and led some...more

Mayer Brown

Mise à jour de la liste française des ETNC

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L’arrêté du 18 avril 2025 modifie la liste des États et territoires non-coopératifs (« ETNC ») au sens de l’article 238-0 A du Code général des impôts. Sont retirés de la liste, les Bahamas, le Belize et les Seychelles....more

Morgan Lewis

France Moves to Reform Gender Equality Index by 2027: What Companies Need to Know

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The French government has confirmed a complete overhaul of the Gender Equality Index to comply with European Directive 2023/970 on pay transparency, which will be implemented in full by 2027. The introduction of seven new...more

A&O Shearman

CNIL launches public consultation on draft recommendations relating to multi-terminal consent

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On April 24 2025, the French supervisory authority (CNIL) issued a draft recommendation to address challenges in collecting user consent for cookies and trackers across multiple devices (the Draft Recommendation). The new...more

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An Overview of the NIS2 Directive and Its Implementation in France and Luxembourg

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With the arrival of the Regulation on Digital Operational Resilience (DORA) and the Network and Information Security 2 (NIS2) Directive, the security of information systems and the protection of critical infrastructures have...more

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Amendements adoptés par l’Assemblée nationale en séance publique au 30 octobre 2024 sur le Projet de Loi de Finances pour 2025

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1. RÉSUMÉ - Différents amendements relatifs au Projet de Loi de Finances pour 2025 ont été adoptés en séance publique devant l'Assemblée nationale lors des débats qui se sont tenus entre le 21 octobre 2025 et le 26 octobre...more

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The European Union Against Deforestation: the Companies Concerned Still Have 8 Months to Take Action

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On December 30, 2024, the European regulation of May 31, 2023 on deforestation will come into force in all EU countries. The aim of these new rules, which are designed to combat the phenomenon of imported deforestation, is to...more

Jones Day

France Adopts Reindustrialization Measures

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In Short - The Situation: A new set of measures has been adopted in France which will promote "Green Industry" by streamlining environmental and industrial authorization and supporting low-carbon industrialization...more

Mintz

French Regulator Calls For Regulation of Providers of ESG Ratings and Other Services

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The AMF, the stock market regulator in France, recently reiterated its call for stricter regulation on a Europe-wide basis of the entities providing ESG ratings and other services. Specifically, the AMF stated that the...more

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Environmental Labels, Greenwashing, and Ecocide Tackled by France's New Climate Law

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On August 22, 2021, the French Parliament adopted the Climate and Resilience Law ("2021 Climate Law"). In aiming to accelerate the transition to a carbon-neutral and more resilient society, the 2021 Climate Law imposes...more

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France Releases Legal Framework for Renewable and Low-carbon Hydrogen

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France has published an ordinance setting out the legal regime for hydrogen, aimed at fostering renewable and low-carbon hydrogen. Under ordinance n° 2021-167, dated February 17, 2021, three different types of hydrogen are...more

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France Lowers Threshold Triggering FDI Screening Mechanism for Listed Companies to 10%

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The lowered threshold for foreign direct investments into France will apply to non-EU and non-EEA investors or to any investor fiscally domiciled outside the European Union and European Economic Area. On July 23, 2020,...more

McDermott Will & Emery

[Webinar] Virtual Tax Forum | Critical Tax Strategies for US MNCs with Operations in Germany, Italy, the UK and France - June 4th,...

Evolving and intersecting tax regimes are creating unintended tax exposure, as well as areas of opportunity, for multinational companies (MNCs) operating in European markets. Understand how new tax regulations transect...more

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French Foreign Direct Investment Rules Set for Overhaul

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The Situation: The French government issued on December 31, 2019, new rules substantially revising the French Foreign Direct Investments ("FDI") regulation. These new provisions mostly implement the recent PACTE law and the...more

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Littler Global Guide - France - Q4 2019

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Reporting Harassment to Third Parties Constitutes Slander - Precedential Decision by Judiciary or Regulatory Agency - When reporting facts that can form the basis for a complaint of harassment (moral or sexual), the...more

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Wind Power Plant Legal Disputes to be Expedited Under New French Decree

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Under the new decree No.2018-1054 dated November 29, 2018, administrative legal actions relating to wind power plants shall be filed directly before the French Administrative Courts of Appeal. The French Government has...more

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Drones Over Europe: A Regulatory Overview

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The Situation: Interest in drone technology continues to grow across Europe....more

BCLP

New Flexible “Télétravail” Rules

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On September 25, 2017, the French government adopted orders to reform French employment law, designed to bring more flexibility to employers, in particular to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to facilitate their...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Actualite Juridique - Decembre 2016

Assurance - Résiliation d'un contrat d'assurance emprunteur pour cause d'aggravation du risque - Le Décret n°2016-1559 du 18 novembre 2016 relatif aux conditions de résiliation d'un contrat d'assurance emprunteur...more

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Impact of new French labor law on franchise network

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After much toing and froing, the new French labor law (sometimes also referred to as " The El Khomri Law " was finally passed by Parliament on the 8th of August 2016 . Among the articles of this Law, one of the goals of...more

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New Regulation to Facilitate the Implementation of Offshore Wind Projects in France

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While the development of the first four offshore wind projects awarded by the French state back in 2012 to the consortia EDF Energies Nouvelles / DONG Energy / Alstom (3 projects) and Areva / Iberdrola (1 project) is...more

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Six Recommendations For Clients With Connections to France

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There have been a number of changes to EU laws recently that have had, or will have, a direct impact on your clients who have connections with France. There are six stand-out issues that are worth careful and immediate...more

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