Vincent Filhol, partner at Navacelle, contributes to the dossier on anti-corruption published in the latest edition of the Observateur de Bruxelles, edited by the Delegation of French Bars. He provides an in-depth analysis of the forthcoming Directive 2023/0135 (COD) on combating corruption, a topic at the heart of current debates.
Just a few days after the French Anti-Corruption Agency (AFA) released its multi-year anti-corruption plan for 2025–2029, Vincent Filhol reaffirms the imperative need for harmonization of anti-corruption standards — a democratic, geopolitical, and economic issue — to ensure fair competition among companies and economic actors more broadly. This aligns with the AFA’s recent domestic work, including its analytical note of December 9, 2024, on prosecutions relating to breaches of probity.
Other contributions to this dossier address the future and the role of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO), by European prosecutors Frédéric Baab and Cécile Soriano, as well as the work of the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO), presented by its president, David Meyer.
