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The article represents the legal basis of Bulgarian legislation. Within Bulgarian tradition, the basic requirements for the legislation are being laid down in the constitution and further developed in the Statutory Instruments Act (SIA) and the Decree No.883 for its implementation. The Rule of Organization and Procedure of the National Assembly (ROPNA) and the Rules of Procedure of the Council of Ministers (RPCM). Acompletely new chapterdedicated to the drafting of legislationhas been established in the 2016 amendment of the Statutory Instruments Act, including prior assessment of impact, public consultation, and compliance with EU legislation and with the case law of ECHR. The basic principlesshall be necessity, reasoning, predictability, consistency, subsidiarity, proportionality and stability. They are in line with the Interinstitutional Agreement between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on better law making from 13 April 2016. The practice of Bulgarian law making howevershows many examples for noncompliance withthese principles or their formalization. As a result the Report of the Commission to the European Parliament and the European Council on the progress of Bulgaria under the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism and the case law of the Supreme Administrative Courtcontain lots of criticism to Bulgarian law making. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Meeting compliance requirements in highly regulated business environments is imperative as companies face severe consequences if they fail. Compliance is particularly crucial in financial services as providers are frequently confronted with changes in regulations that financial advisors have to follow when providing investment advice. Deploying IT affordances is expected to assist in assuring compliance, and optimize the process of information management and retrieval. However, there is no research to date that substantiates this assumption from the employee perspective. We propose a conceptual model for assuring compliance derived from a case study conducted at a German savings bank. Our preliminary findings suggest that IT does indeed help employees in improving their compliance. More importantly, our research reveals compliance concerns such as the limited business intelligence of the current system, loss of flexibility in the advisory process, and uncovers the emerging conflict of interests between client, advisor and service provider. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

All major world encyclopedias define the essence of a phenomenon as being the unification of traits and necessary internal relations, with a relative stability in connection with adjacent phenomena. In this study, we chose to investigate a concept that is the essence of the law, namely, the judicial truth. Starting from the social intent of the law, which is to regulate the social relations, we proposed as a priority objective of this study to highlight the idea that the science of law disregards any subjective human judgment and any values outside the values of true and false. So, in this paper, we analyzed both the concept of truth and the judicial truth. The legal phenomenon is not a specific thing, and its scientific truth is an argumentative construction of the idea of justice, depending on a legal doctrine or another. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the pages of this study, the reader has the opportunity to find out the new aspects of the issue regarding Religious Liberty due to a hermeneutical examination of the text of various national and international legal norms, which we corroborated them with the principles of the juridical doctrine, hence the personal contribution in approaching a matter that continues to be a predilect subject of the EU legislator. Among others thinks, in our study we managed to prove ≶à l'évidence≵ that from the wright to the Liberty of Religion, enacted by Edict of Milan, in the year 313 p. Chr., until to the Right of the Religious Liberty in Europe today, this kind of Liberty was not only perceived, defined and lived differently, but also it has experienced various manifestations and has been provided by different legal requirements, national and international. In the name of this Liberty - which it is based both in the "Jus divinum" and "Jus naturale" - people of different religious beliefs were in fact free to declare their religious identity and to enjoy worshiping God, even if - quite often - from the Edict of Milan until the present they had to make many sacrifices on the Altar of Freedom. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Companies that own, license, or maintain personal information face a daunting number of privacy and security regulations. Companies are subject to new regulations from one or more governing bodies, when companies introduce new or existing products into a jurisdiction, when regulations change, or when data is transferred across political borders. To address this problem, we developed a framework called “requirements water marking” that business analysts can use to align and reconcile requirements from multiple jurisdictions (municipalities, provinces, nations) to produce a single high or low standard of care. We evaluate the framework in an empirical case study conducted over a subset of U.S. data breach notification laws that require companies to secure their data and notify consumers in the event of data loss or theft. In this study, applying our framework reduced the number of requirements a company must comply with by 76% across 8 jurisdictions. We show how the framework surfaces critical requirements trade-offs and potential regulatory conflicts that companies must address during the reconciliation process. We summarize our results, including surveys of information technology law experts to contextualize our empirical results in legal practice. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]