Bibliographie sélective OHADA

This research deals with the legal responsibility of states to provide climate finance to developing countries in order to facilitate climate mitigation and adaptation. The research demonstrates that the area of climate finance has not escaped globalization, where global actors operating at a level beyond the state (the UNFCCC and several Climate Funds) have increasingly taken over some of the climate finance functions previously performed by states. Against this backdrop, the thesis also examines the role of international bodies in providing climate finance, assesses to what extent these bodies are accountable to affected local stakeholders, and puts forward recommendations to foster increased accountability. The research project employs Global Administrative Law (GAL) as a normative framework for assessing and fostering accountability. This thesis is relevant, first and foremost, as an examination of the extent to which global climate finance is adequate for addressing climate change impacts in developing countries. To this end, it engages in a detailed analysis of the international legal framework for climate change and of the relevant financial instruments. It also engages in a normative evaluation of these instruments using the standards proposed by GAL. In keeping with this, the research gives substance and a better definition to these standards. As such, the thesis has the potential to contribute not only to the literature on climate finance, but also to the literature on GAL. It also sheds light on the relationship between climate finance and GAL, a topic that has been largely neglected in the academic literature so far.

The purpose of this study is to provide a legal analysis of the impact of targeted financial sanctions on letters of credit and demand guarantees. The letter of credit is an important method of payment used in international trade. The demand guarantee plays a significant role as an instrument of security in commercial transactions. In their simplest form both instruments constitute an undertaking by a bank to pay a beneficiary against delivery of certain stipulated documents. Letters of credit and demand guarantees are known to be reliable and provide a considerable measure of certainty and predictability to the underlying transaction. Consequently, they have been described as the “lifeblood of international commerce”. Targeted financial sanctions entail assets freezing and prohibitions to prevent funds or other assets from being made available, directly or indirectly, for the benefit of designated individuals and entities. Endorsed by the United Nations and implemented by the vast majority of jurisdictions around the world, targeted financial sanctions are increasingly being used to combat financial crime, including money laundering, terrorism financing and weapon proliferation financing. Banks play a critical role in financial crime prevention and detection. Hence they have been identified as institutions that must comply with targeted financial sanctions. The relationship between targeted financial sanctions and letters of credit and demand guarantees has generally not been well documented. It is hoped, therefore, that this study will make a meaningful contribution to the jurisprudence on letters of credit and demand guarantees. In investigating the impact of targeted financial sanctions, the study can be categorised into three parts. Part one investigates a bank’s compliance with domestic targeted financial sanctions. The chief findings of the study in this regard are that banks are under a legal obligation to comply with sanctions and, as a result, a bank that refuses to perform its contractual obligations under a letter of credit or demand guarantee may have a defence in law. In South African law the bank can raise the so-called defence of legal impossibility of performance to resist a claim for, or potential litigation in respect of, payment. Part two investigates a bank’s compliance with foreign targeted financial sanctions. Because compliance in this regard has no (legal) basis, the bank may conceivably be sued by the beneficiary for payment on the basis of breach of contract. Part three investigates problematic documentary practices that banks have adopted or conceivably may adopt to manage their sanctions risk exposure. In this regard, attention is given to so-called sanctions clauses and other non-documentary conditions. The issue of unjustified amendments by the beneficiary for the purposes of sanctions evasion is also considered in part three. The general conclusion arrived at is that by interfering with payment, targeted financial sanctions render letters of credit and demand guarantees unreliable, thereby having the effect of reducing their value to international trade and commerce. The author proposes certain recommendations and initiatives aimed at mitigating the impact of targeted financial sanctions on credits and guarantees. Key terms: letters of credit; demand guarantees; financial crime; sanctions evasion; targeted financial sanctions; compliance; banks; due diligence; payment; reimbursement; credits; guarantees.

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This thesis explores the regulation of airport charges, which is an important but marginalised topic. It particularly examines how private law instruments can play a role in the regulatory process. Airports used to be subject to traditional regulation, which operates in a command-and-control mode. As the airport industry becomes increasingly complicated, traditional regulation seems problematic. First, the method that is associated with traditional regulation to draw a line between regulated and unregulated airports has downsides. Second, the international regulatory framework on airport charges lacks binding rules. This suggests that traditional regulation is not the best niche for airport charges regulation. Third, good regulation needs independent regulatory bodies, which are hard to achieve in practice.In this context, this thesis argues that a private law approach can serve as a more flexible and effective way to regulate airport charges. There are two instruments under this overarching approach. First, contracts can be adopted to incorporate airport charges regulations. Second, robust corporate governance generates the effect of good regulation. This is an interdisciplinary work that has engaged air law, contract law, corporate law, competition law, and aviation business and management. It also employs the method of case studies. Chapter 4 examines the regulation of airport charges in the UK, Canada, and India. The three case studies demonstrate that private law instruments have been implicitly implemented to different degrees in these countries. These demonstrate the feasibility of applying private ordering in the regulatory process. I also look into the regulation of countries and regions including Australia, Ireland, the EU, and Germany throughout this thesis. This study also examines a specific sector of airport charges, namely, charges for ground-handling services. This sector possesses a unique feature in that it is between aeronautical and non-aeronautical services. A private law approach can also be adopted in the regulation of charges relating to ground-handling services. Additionally, ICAO as an important international organisation governing international air transport can also contribute to a private law approach of airport charges through its soft-law making function. This thesis aims to shed light on a private law approach, as an innovative regulatory mechanism, to airport charges. That said, regulation by this approach and traditional regulation are not contradictory but can cooperate to an extent, depending on how much power one wants to give to private ordering

Avec la résurgence des problèmes environnementaux, le droit international des investissements se retrouve aujourd'hui face à l'urgence de sa propre réadaptation. Et, comme réponse unique à un impératif catégorique, l'équilibre des intérêts émerge en tant qu'un principe général de droit (PGD), de nature souple et autonome, à qui ses diverses fonctions (logique, axiologique, unificatrice et correctrice) confèrent une utilité opérationnelle au sein de l'ordre juridique international, et dont la mise en œuvre en droit international des investissements est l'expression de la dimension évolutive. En tant que principe référentiel, il est consubstantiel au droit international des investissements et vise à faire prévaloir un idéal normatif (le droit de l'équilibre) sur un autre (le droit de la protection). Toutefois, l'aporie de l'équilibre des intérêts est d'être, à la fois, une affirmation du principe de la souveraineté réglementaire et une limitation de celui-ci. Dans un premier temps, sa mise en œuvre se traduit par la prise en compte de l'intérêt général dans le balancier état-investisseur et, dans un second temps, cette exigence ne se concrétise qu'au bout d'un double test de la proportionnalité et du raisonnable. Alors que sa source de régénération par rapport au reste du système est la protection internationale des valeurs fondamentales et socio-environnementales, sa structure de base demeure le couple droit-obligation et s'apparente à une transversalité normative qui combine à la fois la lex lata et la lex ferenda d'une part, la soft law et la hard law d'autre part. Malgré sa fécondité croissante, il est possible de le décrire comme étant la source d'un droit poly-normatif et « open-textured » qui possède à la fois un noyau d'applicabilité, une teneur variable et une juridicité foisonnante. Le profil abrégé de cette construction normative pourrait alors se matérialiser en droit international des investissements par: la prise en compte de l'intérêt général, la responsabilité sociale des entreprises multinationales, la réciprocité par équivalence des droits et obligations des parties, la flexibilité réglementaire et la compatibilité d'avec les autres normes de protection internationales.

Abuse of dominance in the digital markets. Digital markets. Art.102 TFEU: how can it be applied to digital markets? A global perspective: the evolution of the abuse of dominance in digital markets around the world. Europe: the proposal for a regulation on contestable and fair markets in the digital sector (digital market act). United States of America: a time for reforms. China: a new approach towards digital markets. The Google Shopping case: the first step for competition enforcement in digital markets. The European Commission decision (AT.39740). The general Court decision (T-612/17). The Google case in the US: completely different results. A glimpse into the future: the Google Shopping case under the DMA.

Ekonomilerin küreselleşmesi ve piyasaların globalleşmesi karşısında, ortak bir dile sahip olma arzusu giderek daha fazla hissedilmektedir. Bu ihtiyacı hafifletmek için dünya çapında, birçok ülke, kalite ve karşılaştırılabilir bilgiler için UFRS standartlarını benimsemenin uygun olduğunu düşünmüştür. Bu momentumda, SYSCOHADA muhasebe sistemi aracılığıyla OHADA alanı, 2017 yılında standartlarını UFRS ile uyumlu hale getirmeye karar vermiştir. Bu çalışmanın amacı, Uluslararası Muhasebe Standartlarını (UMS/UFRS), on yedi ülkedeki tüm varlıklarının muhasebesini yöneten Afrika'da Ekonomi Hukuku'nun Uyumlaştırılması Örgütü'nün muhasebe sistemi (SYSCOHADA) ile karşılaştırmaktır. Bu karşılaştırmalı analizin amacı, yukarıdaki iki muhasebe sisteminin benzerliklerini ve farklılıklarını ortaya koymaktır. Bu analiz UMS 1 : Finansal Tabloların Sunuluşu, UMS 2: Stoklar, UMS 7: Nakit Akış Tablosu, UMS 8: Muhasebe Politikaları, Muhasebe Tahminlerinde Değişiklikler Ve Hatalar, UMS 10: Raporlama Döneminden Sonraki Olaylar, UMS 12 :Gelir Vergileri, UMS 16 :Maddi Duran Varlıklar, UMS 19 :Çalışanlara Sağlanan Faydalar, UMS 20 :Devlet Teşviklerinin Muhasebeleştirilmesi Ve Devlet Yardımlarının Açıklaması, UMS 21 :Kur Değişiminin Etkileri, UMS 23 Borçlanma Maliyetleri, UMS 37 Karşılıklar, Koşullu Borçlar ve Koşullu Varlıklar, UMS 38 Maddi Olmayan Duran Varlıklar açısından yapılan muamelelere odaklanacaktır. Çalışma, her iki muhasebe standardı hakkında da iyi bir anlayışa sahip olmayı sağlayacaktır. Bu nedenle, yatırımcılar ve diğer tüm kişiler, SYSCOHADA ve Uluslararası Muhasebe Standartları ile ilgilenenler, bu iki muhasebe standardının finansal tablolarının karşılaştırılabilirliğini kolaylaştırmak amacıyla muhasebe düzenlemeleri hakkında iyi bir anlayışa sahip olabileceklerdir. Çalışma sonucunda SYSCOHADA ile Uluslararası Muhasebe Standartları arasındaki karşılaştırma birçok benzerlik ve çok az farklılık ortaya koymaktadır. Kıta Avrupası muhasebe sistemi ve Anglo-Sakson sisteminden kaynaklanan SYSOHADA hükümleri, kaynaklarını Uluslararası Muhasebe Standartlarında bulmaktadır. Ancak, bu iki standarttaki en büyük fark, SYSCOHADA için tarihsel maliyet ölçüm yöntemi ile UFRS için gerçeğe uygun değer arasındadır. In the face of the globalization of economies and the globalization of markets, the desire to have a common language is increasingly felt. To alleviate this need, many countries around the world have considered it appropriate to adopt IFRS standards for quality and comparable information. At this momentum, the OHADA field, through the SYSCOHADA accounting system, has decided to harmonize its standards with IFRS in 2017. The purpose of this study is to compare the International Accounting Standards (IAS/IFRS) with the accounting system of the Organization for the Harmonization of Economic Law in Africa (SYSCOHADA), which manages the accounting of all its assets in seventeen countries. The purpose of this comparative analysis is to reveal the similarities and differences of the above two accounting systems. This analysis will focus on the treatment of IAS 1 : presentation of financial statements IAS 2: Inventories IAS 7-cash flows IAS 8 accounting policies, changes in accounting estimates and errors IAS 10: events after the reporting period IAS 12 income taxes IAS 16 :property, plant and equipment assets IAS 19 :employee benefits IAS 20 :accounting for government grants and government assistance, description of TMS 21 :the effects of changes in foreign exchange rates IAS 23 borrowing costs, IAS 37 Provisions, Contingent Liabilities and Contingent Assets, IAS 38 intangible assets . The study will allow to have a good understanding on both accounting standards. Therefore, investors and all others persons interested in the SYSCOHADA and International Accounting Standards will be able to have a good understanding on the accounting regulations in order to facilitate the comparability of the financial statements of these two accounting standards. As a result of the study, the comparison between the SYSCOHADA and international accounting standards reveals many similarities and few differences. Originating from the continental European accounting system and the Anglo-Saxon system, the provisions of the SYSOHADA find their sources in International Accounting Standards. However, the major difference in these two standards is between the historical cost measurement method for the SYSCOHADA and the fair value for IFRS.

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