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26/06/2024
Updated CMS Expert Guide to Cannabis law and legislation
CMS Expert Guide on cannabis law and legislation gives stakeholders detailed and updated information on the latest developments in cannabis regulation in key markets.  The Guide now covers 33 jurisdictions...
26/06/2024
Legal guide for company directors and CEOs in France
Because environmental, social and governance (ESG) is such an increasing focal point of good corporate governance, we address ESG duties and responsibilities first. For more general duties and re­spons­ib­il­it­ies...
25/06/2024
Market Abuse Regulation (MAR): Ensuring Fair and Transparent Markets
Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) represents a comprehensive framework established by the European Union to prevent inter alia market manipulation, insider dealing, and unlawful disclosure of inside information...
21/06/2024
Publication of CRD6/CRR3: countdown to implementation of third country...
On 19 June 2024, the final texts of the EU banking package known as CRD6 and CRR3 were published in the Official Journal of the European Union. As covered in our earlier update, CRD6 introduces a new...
20/06/2024
ESAs propose improvements to the SFDR and suggests introducing categories...
BackgroundOn 18 June 2024, the three European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA, and ESMA, collectively known as the ESAs) published an opinion (the Opinion) on the evaluation of the Sustainable Finance...
20/06/2024
Cannabis law and legislation in France
Medical use In principle, pursuant to Article R. 5132-86 of the French Public Health Code (PHC), the culture, manufacture, transport, import, export, holding, offer, transfer, acquisition and use of...
19/06/2024
Update on the AML-CTF Package: publication in the Official Journal of the...
The last three remaining texts of the AML-CTF Package (i.e. the AML Directive [1], the AMLA Regulation [2] and the AML Regulation [3]) have been published in the OJEU on 19 June 2024.For more background...
19/06/2024
Overview of the EU-Australia Memorandum of Understanding on Critical and...
The European Union (“EU”) and Australia on 28 May 2024 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) to forge a partnership aimed at developing a secure, stable, ethical, and sustainable supply...
19/06/2024
International arbitration law and rules in France
France has seen the setup of specialised chambers for the hearing of international business disputes in several of its regional jurisdictions, including in the Paris Commercial Tribunal and in the Paris...
18/06/2024
Real estate finance law in France
A. Mortgages 1. Can security be granted to a foreign lender? Yes, as a general principle there are no restrictions on the ownership of land by foreign parties and the taking of security over land or...
17/06/2024
General Data Protection Regulation
The Europe-wide analysis conducted by the CMS network shows that data protection authorities are stepping things up. Fines handed down since GDPR came into force back in 2018 now total €4.5 billion...
14/06/2024
EU anti-dumping investigation of Chinese decor paper imports
On 14 June 2024, the EU opened an anti-dumping in­vest­ig­a­tion con­cern­ing EU imports of decor paper originating in the People’s Republic of China, which could lead to substantial anti-dumping duties...