Compliance in an extremely general way means conforming with stated requirements, rules or standards. The core of the question is how we have to comply and to what extent. Should we obey in a "blind way" to (statutory) law or should we blur the lines between experience and prudence, legality and reason? After a description of the principal aspects of compliance (looking at the model of Bribery Act) this paper tries to outline the concrete difficulties of complying with compliance. Compliance is a general phenomenon not only or prevalently confined to bribery, corruption, fraud to public administration and insti-tution, etc., but diffused in all fields of modern human activities so that it is interesting also to the small firm and even each professional or a "ordinary man" during his "fight" to comply with the "jungle" of rules. Too many complex rules mean growing and grow-ing risks of involuntary breach and/or incurring in liability. This means higher cost (of transactions): in a simple cost and benefit analysis no one will respect a law if it is more convenient to breach it. The collaborative and mediative approach and dialogue between Law and Institutions and private subjects seem to be better than the traditional punitive approach. This means that the legislator should understand that sometimes it is better to mediate a concrete solution instead of insisting on a difficult application of useless crimi-nal or strict rules.

Compliance in modo estremamente generale significa conformità ai requisiti, alle regole o agli standard dichiarati. Il nocciolo della questione è come dobbiamo conformarci e in che misura. Dobbiamo obbedire in modo "cieco" alle leggi (statutarie) o dobbiamo confondere i confini tra esperienza e prudenza, legalità e ragione? Dopo una descrizione dei principali aspetti della conformità (guardando al modello del Bribery Act), il presente documento cerca di delineare le difficoltà concrete del rispetto della conformità. La compliance è un fenomeno generale non solo o prevalentemente circoscritto alla corruzione, alla corruzione, alla frode alla pubblica amministrazione e all'istigazione, ecc., ma diffuso in tutti i campi delle attività umane moderne in modo che sia interessante anche per la piccola impresa e anche per ogni professionista o "uomo comune" durante la sua "lotta" per rispettare la "giungla" delle regole. Troppe regole complesse significano rischi crescenti e crescenti di violazione involontaria e/o di responsabilità. Questo significa un costo (delle transazioni) più elevato: in una semplice analisi dei costi e dei benefici nessuno rispetterà una legge se è più conveniente violarla. L'approccio collaborativo e mediatico e il dialogo tra Diritto e Istituzioni e soggetti privati sembrano essere migliori del tradizionale approccio punitivo. Ciò significa che il legislatore dovrebbe capire che a volte è meglio mediare una soluzione concreta invece di insistere su una difficile applicazione di inutili regole crimini o regole rigide.

MIRANDA, A. (2017). The limits of the law and the future of compliance. In E. Plywaczewsky, Guzik-Makaruk E. (a cura di), Current problems of the penal law and criminology (pp. 630-641). Warszawa : C. H. Beck Polska.

The limits of the law and the future of compliance

MIRANDA, Antonello
2017-01-01

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Compliance in an extremely general way means conforming with stated requirements, rules or standards. The core of the question is how we have to comply and to what extent. Should we obey in a "blind way" to (statutory) law or should we blur the lines between experience and prudence, legality and reason? After a description of the principal aspects of compliance (looking at the model of Bribery Act) this paper tries to outline the concrete difficulties of complying with compliance. Compliance is a general phenomenon not only or prevalently confined to bribery, corruption, fraud to public administration and insti-tution, etc., but diffused in all fields of modern human activities so that it is interesting also to the small firm and even each professional or a "ordinary man" during his "fight" to comply with the "jungle" of rules. Too many complex rules mean growing and grow-ing risks of involuntary breach and/or incurring in liability. This means higher cost (of transactions): in a simple cost and benefit analysis no one will respect a law if it is more convenient to breach it. The collaborative and mediative approach and dialogue between Law and Institutions and private subjects seem to be better than the traditional punitive approach. This means that the legislator should understand that sometimes it is better to mediate a concrete solution instead of insisting on a difficult application of useless crimi-nal or strict rules.
2017
Settore IUS/02 - Diritto Privato Comparato
MIRANDA, A. (2017). The limits of the law and the future of compliance. In E. Plywaczewsky, Guzik-Makaruk E. (a cura di), Current problems of the penal law and criminology (pp. 630-641). Warszawa : C. H. Beck Polska.
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