Identifying the organisation's legal framework

1. Regulatory Concept & Core Standards

Today we will learn to identify the information needed to assess the organisation's duties. 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. An integrity programme connects risks, behaviour, controls and reporting. Duties are assessed under Slovenian law. The preventive model is recommended practice unless a specific applicable duty is identified.

The assessment starts with the legal entity, its activities and the territory in which it operates. Count workers using the national criteria, identify whether the entity is public or private, and check sector-specific exceptions. A size threshold does not answer every question. The obligation to establish a channel, whistleblower protection and corruption prevention duties may have different scopes.

Apply the following rule: Article 9 generally covers entities with at least 50 employees. A threshold of at least ten applies to the specified principal healthcare, water, waste and environmental activities. Listed state bodies and municipalities are covered irrespective of headcount, and additional sectoral requirements exist. The trusted person, zaupnik, is appointed from employees. An external provider may receive reports, but purchasing a platform does not replace the trusted person’s statutory tasks.

2. Practical Implementation & Procedure

Record legal form, location, employees, regulated activities and group structure. Link each duty to a source, conclusion and date. Do not automatically combine subsidiaries into one entity. For public-sector organisations separately check ZZPri article 9 and the group required to maintain an integrity plan. 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 employees, an association thirty and a public body twenty. The company meets the general threshold. For the others, assess activity and entity type; many listed public bodies are covered regardless of headcount. 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 having fewer than fifty employees mean no prevention obligations exist? 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. Size does not replace assessment of activity and legal status. Distinguish channel, protection and prevention duties and identify the basis.

One mistake to avoid is: using the fifty-worker threshold as a universal answer across different legal regimes.

Now apply the national rule to a second decision. A subsidiary copies its foreign headquarters’ procedure without its own assessment. What must it check?

Identify the Slovenian entity, employees, public or private status and article 9 exceptions. Appoint the trusted person and define tasks. Shared technology or external receipt does not replace national obligations.