The New French Legal Regulations For All Crypto-Active Players With the future French PACTE law, currently under discussion, the French legislator wishes to create an incentive legal environment for all crypto-active actors whilst identifying when intervention is necessary to protect investors. Thibault Verbiest and Diane Richebourg, DS Avocats
France Two early ICOs in France Iexec Iexec aims to become a decentralized computing platform. The project allows Decentralized Applications (DAPPS) and other users to require external computation while the protocole validate the results in a decentralized manner. Led
France Clarification on cryptoassets taxation in France On April 26th, 2018, the Supreme Administrative Court ("Conseil d'Etat"), clarified prior instructions from the tax administrations. In 2014 the tax administration had presented capital gains from bitcoin as either industrial
France Ordinance on the use of shared registers for the transmission of financial titles On December 8 2017, the French president signed a legislative order210 authorizing the use of a "shared digital registering device"---a formal designation for blockchain systems---for the transmission of financial titles
France Discussion Paper AMF on Oct. 22, 2017 The French Financial Markets Authority (AMF) published209 on October 22 a discussion paper regarding its analysis of the application of existing regulatory framework to ICOs and future regulatory options. Current Framework While most
France France As part of the European Union, France's regulatory framework complies with the Prospectus Regulation as well as the Markets in Financial Instruments, Alternative Investment Fund Managers and Anti-Money Laundering Directives. As a civil
