Radioscopie d'une notion : les "buts monumentaux" de la Compliance ("Radioscopy of a notion: the Compliance "monumental goals""), in "Les buts monumentaux de la Compliance" ("Compliance Monumental Goals")

The « Monumental Goals » of Compliance Law:

Radioscopy of a notion

This manifestation will be in French, but the book based on it will be published in English

Under the scientifique direction of

Christophe André,  Marie-Anne Frison-Roche, Marie Malaurie and Benoît Petit

Inaugural colloquium of the cycle of colloquia around the general theme 

Compliance Monumental Goals

Thursday 16th of September 2021, Paris, from 9 am to 6.30 pm 

Amphitheater of Maison du Barreau

2 rue de Harley, 75001, Paris

9 am – 9.10 am. Welcome words by Muriel Chagny, directrice du Laboratoire Dante (Director of Dante Laboratory)

9.10 am – 9.25 am.  Foreword by Marie-Emma Boursier, doyen  de l'Université Paris - Saclay (Dean of Versailles-Saint-Quentin Law Faculty)

I- THE INTERESTS CONCERNED BY MONUMENTAL GOALS: CROSSED LOOK

Presidency of Benoît Petit, maître de conférences à la Faculté de droit de Versailles-Saint-Quentin (senior lecturer at Versailles-Saint-Quentin Law Faculty) 

To understand the notion of "Monumental Goals", it is firstly necessary to take crossed perspectives on them, particularly through the prism of Labor Law, Environmental Law and Enterprise Law. Many questions appear. Does the notion of “Monumental Goals” present any substance in Law? Is it uniformly understood, or do specificities appear, forged by specific cultures and disciplinary practices? What are the sources and implicit references or echoes? Because even if we admit the part of novelty, there is undoubtedly an anchoring in traditional legal concepts, like the general interest or sovereignty. How does the shift from meta-legal (prima facie introduced by the concept) to legal take place, and where do any operational difficulties lie when legal actors are called upon to act? The question of a possible categorization of "Monumental Goals" will thus be explored, through these three legal disciplines whose historicity, goals and implications for firms differ.  

9.30 am - 10.45 am. "Monumental Goals" with regard to the interests concerned into the firm

• The organization of the monumental goals of labor relations law: a shifting and often paradoxical whole, by Benoît Petit, maître de conférences à la Faculté de droit de Versailles-Saint-Quentin (senior lecturer at Versailles-Saint-Quentin Law Faculty) 

• Interest and “raison d’être” of the company: how does it fit together with the Compliance Monumental Goals?, by Anne-Valérie Le Fur, professeur à l'Université Paris - Saclay (Full Professor at Paris-Saclay University)

• In the Enterprise, relations between Compliance and Monumental Goals in social  areas,by Dominique de La Garanderie, avocat à la Cour d'appel de Paris (attorney before the Paris Court of Appeal) 

10.45 am - 11 am. Coffee Break

11 am - 12.45 pm. "Monumental Goals" with regards to interests concerned beyond the firm

• Under what conditions could Climate Law constitute a priority monumental goal for Compliance?, by Christian Huglo, avocat à la Cour d' appel de Paris (Attorney before the Paris Court of Appeal)

• Monumental Goals and Market Law, by Marie Malaurie, professeur à l'Université Paris-Saclay (full Professor at the Paris-Saclay University)

• Monumental Goals in supplier - distributor relations, by  Dominique Heintz, avocat à la Cour d' appel de Paris (attorney before the Paris Court of Appeal)

• Compliance Monumental Goals: complement or competitors to the notion of Public Interest?, by Emma Guernaoui, Montpellier University 

• The Ambiguous Relations between Compliance and Sovereignty, by Regis Bismuth, professeur de droit à Sciences po, Paris  (full law professor at Sciences po Paris)

II- THE OUTLINES OF THE MONUMENTAL GOAL NOTION: WHAT UTILITY? 

These reflections allow to ask why and how these "Monumental Goals" are developed. Indeed, what is the relevance of the association of "Monumental Goals" and Compliance? Beyond theoretical considerations relating to the meaning of Law, is this really an effective alloy encouraging companies to behave differently? By what ways? These questions arise in particular with regard to the imperatives of legal certainty and the operative nature of the concept. The question of "Monumental Goals" will thus be explored by the operational actors of compliance, both those who act within companies and those who act from the lato sensu State sphere, for understanding whether this notion is a pure rhetoric figure or constitutes a particularly promising lever for the evolution of market behavior.

2.30 pm - 4 pm. First round table: "Monumental goals perceived by the firm: serene business or business under pressure?

Round table animated by Christophe André, maître de conférences à l'Université Paris - Saclay (senior lecturer at the Paris-Saclay University)

• Anne Le Goff, secrétaire générale déléguée d'Arkéa (Deputy Secretary general at Arkéa)
• Jean-François Vaquieri, Secrétaire Général d'Enedis (Secretary General of Enedis)
• Isabelle Gavanon, avocate à la Cour d'Appel de Paris (Attorney before the Paris Court of Appeal)

4 pm - 4.20 pm. Coffee Break 

4.20 pm - 6 pm. Second round table: "Monumental Goals" used by public authorities 

Round table animated by Guillaume Beaussonie, professeur à l'Université Toulouse-1-Capitole (full law professor at Toulouse-1-Capitole University)

• Jérôme Marilly, avocat général à la Cour d'Appel de Paris (Advocate General before the Paris Court of Appeal)
• Roch-Olivier Maistre, président du Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (President of the French Audiovisual Regulatory Authority)

6 pm. Synthesis of the works and conclusive words by Marie-Anne Frison-Roche, professeur à Sciences po (Paris) (Full Professor at Sciences Po Paris)