Значение на програмите за съответствие при реализиране на отговорността на юридическите лица за престъпление
The Importance of Compliance Programmes in the Realization of Legal Entities’ Responsibility for Crimes

Summary/Abstract: The effective regulation and realization of legal entities’ responsibility for crimes is an important aspect of the successful counteraction against crime. Corporate responsibility arises and is initially substantiated in the countries of the common law system, however, now it is laid down in the legislation of a number of countries of the continental law system as well. In most jurisdictions the institute of corporate responsibility (irrespective of its nature – criminal or administrative) includes the regulation of certain circumstances to which the legislator attaches different importance in connection with the realization of responsibility, starting with deciding whether to seek the legal entity’s responsibility and ending with determining the type and amount of the sanction. This article gives a brief review of the emergence and spread of one of these circumstances – the compliance programmes in the USA and Europe – and analyzes the regulation and the application of the programmes in Italy, Spain, Czechia and Latvia. Conclusions are formulated with regard to the basic characteristics and requirements for the compliance programmes as an important aspect of the institute of corporate responsibility.

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