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In recent weeks, the Cour de Cassation (French Supreme Court) has issued a number of rulings providing useful clarification on issues that are important to companies and their corporate officers.

These rulings concern inter alia the employer’s inexcusable fault, the signature of mutual separation agreements, harmful management practices and serious misconduct, and automatic compensation for breach of the employees’ right to rest.

We are pleased to announce that, for the seventh year in a row, our firm is recommended by the Legal 500 Europe, Middle East and Africa in the “Environment” practice area, and that Ms. Laure Marolleau is again recognized as “Next Generation Partner” in this area.

The last session of our Compliance Task Force took place on March 14, 2024. It theme was “Risk Mapping: Definition, Issues at Stake, Methodology”.

After a compliance update by our Counsel Claire Filliatre, Benjamin Bayard, Senior Manager Deloitte Risk Advisory, and Claire shared their experience in risk mapping.

In particular, they addressed the French regulatory context, the challenges of risk mapping, the various typologies of mapping and the key methodical steps for risk mapping, with a focus on the specifics of the Sapin 2 Law, and the obligation to prevent corruption risks, and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

The European Council and the European Parliament reached a provisional deal on a Directive that promotes the repair of broken or defective goods, also known as the right-to-repair (or R2R) Directive.

This Directive aims to increase the repair of goods within the legal guarantee and to provide consumers with simpler, cheaper options for repairing technically repairable products when the legal warranty has expired or when the good no longer functions due to wear and tear.

The next session of the Compliance Task Force created by the European American Chamber of Commerce Auvergne Rhone-Alps (EACC) in partnership with Soulier Bunch will be held on Mars 14, 2024 from 8.30am to 10.30am at Deloitte’s offices in Lyon.

The theme of this session will be “Risk Mapping: Definition, Issues at Stake, Methodology”.

Sport has always played a key role in international relations. Article 165 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) specifies that the European Union contributes to developing the European dimension in sport. However, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has recalled in the past that sport must not hinder the application of the competition rules set forth in Article 101 (cartels and other agreements that disrupt free competition) and Article 102 (abuse of dominant position) of the TFEU.

The three judgments issued by the CJEU on December 21, 2023 have generated as much discussion as the “Bosman” judgment in 1995 which prohibited the imposition of quotas on foreign players in European soccer.

This article discusses the most notable of the three judgments, i.e., the so-called “Super League” judgment.