Member of the Paris Bar
Nowadays, managing a business requires so many particular and complex skills and competences that no one would challenge the necessity to authorize a corporate manager to delegate part of his powers and authority to officers vested with specific responsibilities. To be valid, a delegation of powers must meet certain requirements that have been progressively defined […]
In a judgment dated September 2, 2010, the Investigating Chamber of the Toulouse Court of Appeals upheld the full dismissal rendered on January 30, 2009 by the investigating judge of Saint-Gaudens in the publicized so-called “bee case”. More than seven years have elapsed since Regent, a seed-coating product successively owned by Bayer CropScience and BASF […]
Following the first year of operation of the Autorité de la Concurrence (French Competition Authority, hereinafter the “FCA”), it is time to make an assessment and try to indentify the major trends of the decisions it rendered in 2009.
The European REACH Regulation[1] (originally made up of more than 850 pages!) dated December 18, 2006 entered into force on June 1, 2007. Pursuant to this Regulation, chemical substances as such, used in the preparation of a mixture, or contained in an article in quantities of 1 tonne or above per year must now be […]
The Conseil d’Etat (Highest Administrative Court) opportunely recalled quite recently that, in the absence of scientific certainty, the precautionary principle cannot be applied without taking into account the economic consequences associated with the withdrawal or the suspension of a market authorization. In the case at hand, the owner of the anti-inflammatory drug Ketum filed a […]
The precautionary principle burst into the media and the judicial world right after the incorporation of the Environmental Charter – in which this principle is mentioned – into the French Constitution in 2005. Environmental groups and associations have since then successively targeted several industries that are of vital importance for our economy. 2005, 2006 and […]
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