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France’s National Financial Prosecutor and Anti-Corruption Agency Issue Joint Guidelines on Corporate Settlement Mechanisms
On June 28, 2019, the French National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (Parquet National Financier)(“PNF”) and the French Anti-Corruption Agency (Agence Française Anticorruption)(“AFA”) published guidelines on the relatively new corporate settlement mechanism in France known as a Judicial Public Interest Agreement, or Convention Judiciaire d’Intérêt Public (“CJIP”). It marks the first time that the PNF and the AFA have issued joint guidelines on CJIP agreements.