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The objective of this article is to analyze the technical novelties brought by the project of standardized regulation UNE 19601 on criminal risks management systems (version published on 8 February 2017 for public consultation). This paper will (i) contextualize the UNE 19601 in the Spanish current criminal compliance scene; (ii) examine the regulation's specificities and explain the requisites that are not directly issued from article 31 bis of the Spanish criminal Code, and (iii) briefly explain the audit procedure that may conclude with a conformity certification, if successful. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On September 20th, 2013, the Cabinet passed the draft amendments to the Criminal Code, which carry out a comprehensive reform of the system of criminal liability of legal persons and include a new offense, consisting of the breach of the duty of supervision or control, whose potential offenders are managers/directors or legal representatives of the legal person. As a consequence, this paper addresses the most significant issues of the current system of criminal liability of legal persons, the main amendments that have been proposed regarding the system, as well as the structure, scope and limits of the new offense that managers of legal persons may commit, which is expected to be included in the new Criminal Code, under article 286.6. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper goes through the main features of the internationalization bonds and the internationalization covered bonds, which have been created ex novo by Law 14/2013, of 27 September 2013, on support to entrepreneurs and their internationalization. The legal regime of these instruments is inspired by the traditional mortgage bonds and covered bonds, which (especially the latter) have allowed the Spanish financial institutions to mobilize significant volumes of mortgage portfolios during the last decades. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The consequences of the implementation of the EU Directive on services in the internal market within the scope the Spanish retail trade regulations by means of the amendment of Law 7/1996 («LOCM»), are twofold. The first is the removal, as a general rule, of the requirement to obtain a prior authorisation to set up commercial establishments and the specification of the circumstances under which a competent authority may exceptionally require an authorisation pursuant to the principle of proportionality. The second is the introduction of a new type of sales («outlet sales») for legal purposes, which aims to draw a clear line between the regulations governing these sales and sales of damaged or obsolete goods («saldos»). After outlining the main features and context of the amendment of the Spanish Retail Trade Law, the paper focuses on the policy reasons behind the two relevant developments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]