PURPOSE Measuring vendors' compliance and possible change in compliance with the legal age limits on alcohol sales in 2011 and 2013. METHODS In 2011 and 2013, representative mystery shopping studies were conducted. In total, 2,737 underage mystery shopping alcohol purchase attempts were conducted both in off-premise (supermarkets, liquor stores, and take away restaurants) and on-premise (bars...

Regulatory Compliance is critical for pharmaceutical and medical devices industry. Compliance is a legal requirement mandated by the regulatory agencies such as US FDA and EMEA. Compliance also makes good business sense – being compliant helps improve business results as it instills a culture of quality and accountability in the organization. Most importantly, compliance is the right (ethical) ...

In recent times, there has been an exponential growth in digitization of legal documents such as case records, contracts, terms of services, regulations, privacy documents and compliance guidelines. Courts have been digitizing their archived cases and also making it available for e-discovery. On the other hand, businesses are now maintaining large data sets of legal contracts that they have sig...

Across a range of legal regimes—including environmental, tort, employment discrimination, corporate, securities, and health care law— United States law reduces or eliminates enterprise liability for those organizations that can demonstrate the existence of “effective” internal compliance structures. Presumably, this legal standard rests on an assumption that internal compliance structures reduc...

Managing business process compliance is a highly important topic in the financial sector. Various scandals and last but not least the financial crisis have caused many new constraints and legal regulations that banks and financial institutions need to face. Based on a domain-specific semantic business process modeling notation, we propose a new approach to modeling and analysis of business proc...

The Service scenarios have a crucial role in the overall functionality of Information Systems (IS). They should be treated and examined very carefully in order to fulfill the end-user expectations and the overall platform behavior by itself. To have a qualitative scenarios it is not enough to treat only the user expectation but also these scenarios should be in compliance with legal and ethical...

In this paper we extend the logic of violation proposed by [14] with time, more precisely, we temporalise that logic. The resulting system allows us to capture many subtleties of the concept of legal compliance. In particular, the formal characterisation of compliance can handle different types of legal obligation and different temporal constraints over them. The logic is also able to represent...

In this paper we present an overview of the PhD thesis, which aims to show the feasibility of a legal knowledge modeling based on the definitions included into legal texts using Semantic Web techniques in order to check compliance of tender documents to EU Directives. We show a hybrid approach, i.e. a theory and a system that combine the use of Akoma-Ntoso standard to describe legal texts, OWL ...

A key challenge in the legal domain is the adaptation and representation of the legal knowledge expressed through texts, in order for legal practitioners and researchers to access this information easier and faster to help with compliance related issues. One way to approach this goal is in the form of a taxonomy of legal concepts. While this task usually requires a manual construction of terms ...