FRANCE Law and Practice Contributed by: Thierry Marembert, Cécile Labarbe, Aaron Bass and Céline Serpagli, Kiejman & Marembert
9.2 Likely Changes to the Applicable Legislation of the Enforcement Body
Also in 2024, the Group of States against Corrup - tion (GRECO) released it Second Compliance Report assessing the implementation of the 18 recommenda - tions it made to France in the 2019 Fifth Round Evalu - ation Report. GRECO concluded that France had fully complied with one of its 18 recommendations (per - taining to the confidentiality of advisory procedures with ethics advisers/correspondents and the train - ing of the latter), had partially implemented nine, and had not implemented eight. As far as enforcement of France’s anti-corruption policy goes, the report cau - tioned that, although additional resources had been allocated (in particular to France’s PNF), France had not done enough to consider that GRECO’s recom - mendation had been fulfilled. Earlier in 2025, the PNF released a summary of its activities for 2024, revealing that almost half of its 766 ongoing investigations deal with corruption and related offences. While it noted a small decrease in active investigations compared to 2023, the report stressed that “the number of cases handled by the PNF remains high, with an average of 42 proceedings per prosecutor”.
No significant changes to the applicable legislation or the enforcement are being discussed at the moment. In 2021, some Members of Parliament led a joint effort to enact a new law designed to expand the scope of the current Sapin II law. However, their project failed to gain traction in Parliament. An amended version of the bill was again submitted in 2024.
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