{"id":58511,"date":"2025-09-12T15:01:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T13:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fnege-medias.fr\/video-acf\/what-is-the-governance-code-en\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T15:01:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T13:01:24","slug":"what-is-the-governance-code-en","status":"publish","type":"video-acf","link":"https:\/\/fnege-medias.fr\/en\/fnege-video\/what-is-the-governance-code-en\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the <b>Governance Code<\/b>?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"76\" data-end=\"526\"><strong data-start=\"76\" data-end=\"271\">A governance code is a set of recommendations designed, according to its authors, to ensure the implementation of best practices in the organization and functioning of the board of directors.<\/strong><br data-start=\"271\" data-end=\"274\" \/>Today, there are several hundred such codes around the world\u2014sometimes multiple codes within a single country. This is the case in France, where the financial market regulator recognizes two codes: the <strong data-start=\"476\" data-end=\"495\">AFEP-MEDEF Code<\/strong> and the <strong data-start=\"504\" data-end=\"523\">Middlenext Code<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"528\" data-end=\"782\">These governance codes fall under what is known in legal terms as <strong data-start=\"594\" data-end=\"606\">soft law<\/strong>. Indeed, the term <em data-start=\"625\" data-end=\"631\">code<\/em> can be misleading, as these are not laws passed through a legislative process, but rather <strong data-start=\"722\" data-end=\"781\">self-regulatory texts issued by employers&#8217; associations<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A governance code is a set of recommendations designed, according to its authors, to ensure the implementation of best practices in the organization and functioning of the board of directors.<br \/>\nToday, there are several hundred such codes around the world\u2014sometimes multiple codes within a single country. This is the case in France, where the financial market regulator recognizes two codes: the AFEP-MEDEF Code and the Middlenext Code.<br \/>\nThese governance codes fall under what is known in legal terms as soft law. Indeed, the term code can be misleading, as these are not laws passed through a legislative process, but rather self-regulatory texts issued by employers&#8217; associations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":52390,"template":"","format":[11958,11959],"meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[3023,3150,3164,3015],"tags":[11068,11065,5352,11069,6244,11070,6494],"class_list":["post-58511","video-acf","type-video-acf","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gouvernance","category-governance","category-organizational-theory","category-theorie-des-organisations","tag-afep-medef-code","tag-agency-conflict","tag-governance-en","tag-governance-code","tag-independence","tag-middlenext-code","tag-soft-law","format-dico","format-management-dictionary"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnege-medias.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/video-acf\/58511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnege-medias.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/video-acf"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnege-medias.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/video-acf"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fnege-medias.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/video-acf\/58511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnege-medias.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnege-medias.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnege-medias.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnege-medias.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58511"},{"taxonomy":"format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnege-medias.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/format?post=58511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}