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Clifford Chance

Clifford Chance

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Compliance programs in the Draft Bill on the Reform of the Criminal Code: are theyobligatory, with a failure to implement them constituting an offence?

24 September 2013

On 20 September 2013, the government passed a decision to send a far-reaching(1) Draft Bill
of an Organic Law on the Reform of the Criminal Code to the Cortes Generales, so that it could begin its passage through parliament. Among other things, it introduces a new offence in what would be new Article 286.6, which states as follows:

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