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In what year was the criminal liability of legal persons introduced into Spanish law by organic law?
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- After the current Code and before its largest reform.
- The start of the 2010s.
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2010
Why
2010. Before it, Spanish law held that societas delinquere non potest, only natural persons could commit offences. The reform introduced liability for a closed list of offences, and a later reform set out the conditions under which an effective compliance programme exempts or mitigates, which is why corporate compliance became a legal industry in Spain within a few years.
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