Compliance programme and its importance for criminal liability of legal entities, their sanctioning and elimination of strategic security risks
Abstract
The article deals with a current and serious issue, namely the importance of the so-called compliance programme - a comprehensive programme of the internal functioning of a legal entity, which should serve to prevent criminal activity within the legal entity. The author defines the concept of a'compliance program, discusses its importance for the development of corporate criminal liability, shows in which direction a compliance program can influence corporate sanctioning, and finally concludes his study stating that the absence of a quality and functioning compliance program is a strategic risk for a large corporation.
The article contains numerous de lege ferenda proposals. It would be appropriate to proceed to make these changes at the present time, when the overall recodification of Czech criminal law has not yet been completed.