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French Senate considers GMO law

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • March 1 2008

Following the recent Grenelle de l’Environnement, which concluded that there was an urgent need to review French regulation of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), the French senate has recently voted on a draft law dealing with the issue

EU clamps down on unfair practices

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
  • -
  • European Union, France, Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 15 2007

The complex patchwork of different national legislation relating to unfair commercial practices adds cost to those who market goods and services in multiple jurisdictions and can be a deterrent from entering new markets

French insolvency law

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • February 13 2009

Although safeguard proceedings have been used successfully as a negotiation tool in a number of high-profile cases (such as the Eurotunnel case), they have represented just 1 per cent of all insolvency proceedings in France since the Business Safeguard Act 2005 introduced the safeguard procedure in January 2006

Remuneration and corporate governance in financial institutions

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
  • -
  • France, Germany, Global, Netherlands, United Kingdom
  • -
  • October 2 2009

There is a pressing need for remuneration and governance principles in financial institutions to be based on a globally consistent framework, rather than national initiatives

Covered bonds technology: an alternative to existing financing and refinancing techniques

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • June 6 2008

In the current financial market turmoil, covered bonds appear to be one of the few remaining safe harbours as they continue to appeal to investors and thus offer a source of financing to financial institutions at reasonable cost

French safeguard proceedings: balance swings back in favour of creditors

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • March 10 2010

On 25 February 2010, the Paris Court of Appeal handed down two much-anticipated decisions confirming that creditors are able to challenge the opening of safeguard proceedings and clarifying the basis upon which safeguard proceedings can be opened by a debtor

French abuse of law and dividend tax credits: recent case-law developments

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • November 16 2009

In two recent cases, the French Supreme Administrative Tax Court (Conseil d’Etat) shed light on how it applies the new definition of ‘abuse of law’, especially in a context of transfer of tax credits

The concept of moral harassment is defined by the French Supreme Court

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • October 8 2010

Article L 1152-1 of the French Labour Code (the Code) defines moral harassment as 'repeated acts having as their object or effect a deterioration of an employee's working conditions likely to (i) infringe his rights or dignity, (ii) alter his physical or mental health, or (iii) compromise his promotion'

Reduced feed-in tariffs for solar energy in France

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • October 19 2010

The French government has recently announced its decision to reduce the feed-in remuneration tariffs for electricity from photovoltaic facilities

New tax on bankers' bonuses

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • April 28 2010

On 9 March 2010, the French parliament voted on a law that introduces an exceptional tax imposed on financial institutions (credit institutions and investment firms) that operate in France

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