France: Environmental Law

France has enacted groundbreaking legislation targeting ultra-fast fashion through increased extended producer responsibility fees based on product range breadth and repair incentives, while also mandating manufacturing-location disclosures and restricting advertising. As the EU's revised Waste Framework Directive allows Member States to adopt similar measures, France's approach may preview how textile EPR requirements evolve across Europe and potentially influence emerging U.S. state programs. Will other j

Le Figaro reports on the multiplication of legal proceedings initiated by the main publishers against companies developing artificial intelligence models, believing that their works have been used without authorization to train these systems.

The European Commission has finalized its simplification package for the EU Deforestation Regulation, introducing significant changes to product coverage and operational procedures. The package includes modifications to the list of regulated products, technical updates to the Information System, and multilingual guidance documentation. These developments represent the Commission's response to feedback from Member States and affected industries seeking more streamlined compliance processes.

Designed as a cornerstone of the EU's climate strategy, the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism ("CBAM") aims to prevent carbon leakage by ensuring that imported goods...

Adopted in 2017, the French Duty of Vigilance Act establishes a pioneering corporate duty to identify and prevent severe human rights, environmental, and health and safety risks.

On March 4, 2026, the European Commission published a proposal for a Regulation establishing a framework of measures for the acceleration of industrial capacity and decarbonization in strategic sectors...

On September 9, 2025, the European Parliament adopted a new directive amending the Waste Framework Directive with respect to textiles and food waste.

La Direction générale de la concurrence, de la consommation et de la répression des fraudes (DGCCRF)...

Class actions have been introduced in a piecemeal fashion in France since 2014. They were originally limited to consumer protection prior to being extended in 2016 and 2018 to cover health products, environmental issues...