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Liability of legal persons

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LevelALBBIHKOSMNEMKDSRB
Actions of responsible persons, lower-level employees, agents, etc. may trigger corporate liability when committed on behalf of or in the interests of a legal entity.
*Only actions of responsible persons
The law establishes monetary and non-monetary sanctions for corporate offences.
Monetary sanctions for corporate offences include fines proportionate to the amount of the undue benefit.
Liability of legal persons is autonomous.
Sanctions are routinely applied to legal persons for corruption offences.
Independent stakeholders perceive the application of the liability of legal persons as impartial and consistent.
The authorities regularly publish detailed statistics on detection, investigation, prosecution, trial and sanctions applied to legal persons.
Evaluations of the application of the law are carried out systematically and the results are published.
Evaluations have revealed effective and dissuasive sentencing practice.
Findings of evaluations are used to further improve the law and the activities of law enforcement and the prosecutorial and judicial authorities.

Note that for Bosnia and Herzegovina, “State” stands for the state level, while “FBiH” stands for the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and “RS” stands for Republika Srpska - the two entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Note that the presented scoring criteria system is not a full representation of the scoring methodology used to determine the score for an indicator. For more information, see the Methodology section.

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