Module Learning Objective

identify duties for a particular Latvian organisation

1. Regulatory Concept & Core Standards

Today we will learn to identify duties for a particular Latvian organisation. Throughout the video, consider the difference between knowing a rule and applying it to a decision. We will work through an example, identify a possible failure and develop a response that can be used at work. Prevention connects risks, conduct rules, controls and reporting. Distinguish internal-channel duties from public institutions’ corruption-prevention duties. Identify the applicable rule or chosen method at each step and check whether it actually works.

Section 5 distinguishes public institutions and private legal persons. Public bodies have no headcount threshold; private entities generally need at least fifty workers, with regulated-sector exceptions. Cabinet Regulation 630 has its own scope.

Apply the following rule: Section 5 requires an internal system in public institutions regardless of workforce, and private legal persons with at least 50 workers. Specified financial and other regulated sectors are exempt from the headcount threshold. Sharing follows section 5(3); outsourcing does not remove protection.

2. Practical Implementation & Procedure

Record entity, activities, status and workforce. Check each regime separately. Link conclusions to current provisions and dates. Assess each group entity and permitted shared-system conditions. Before moving on, turn this procedure into a sequence you could explain to a colleague. Identify the first check, the action that depends on its outcome and the record that allows the decision to be reconstructed. Follow the sequence on screen and identify the point where an error would change the result.

3. Case Study & Compliance Action

A company has eighty workers, an association thirty and a state body twenty. The private threshold does not resolve the state body’s position. Check the association’s activities too. Now read the case carefully. Separate established facts from information you would still need to confirm. Do not add motives or events that have not been described. This distinction matters when choosing a response proportionate to the information available.

The exercise is as follows: Does fewer than fifty workers end the entire legal assessment? Choose an answer and write one sentence explaining it. During the pause, compare your choice with the criteria we have just considered. Also think about the material you would retain to explain the decision later.

No. Headcount is one criterion. Public status, regulated activities and other duties need separate checks. Conclusions must concern the actual entity.

One mistake to avoid is: using one threshold for every duty.

Now apply the national rule to a second decision. A subsidiary adopts its foreign head office’s procedure unchanged. What should be checked?

Identify the Latvian legal person, workforce and regulated activities. Check section 5 threshold exceptions and shared-system conditions. Public-institution duties do not depend on headcount. A shared platform gives no automatic group-wide access. Name the owner and substitution arrangements.

National Legal Framework: Trauksmes celšanas likums, transposing Directive (EU) 2019/1937 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of persons who report breaches of Union law.