Legal Inventory Overview
Legal Inventory Content
The legal inventory constitutes the regulation framework repository applying to an organization. The regulation framework comprises:
• regulations
A regulation is a set of directives, compulsory or not, defined by a government in a law, by standard bodies as "best practices" or as an internal policy in an organization.
For more details, see Defining Regulations.• requirements
A requirement is a need or expectation explicitly expressed, imposed as a constraint to be respected within the context of a project. This project can be a certification project or an organizational project or an information system project.For more details, see Defining Requirements.Updating the Legal Inventory
The legal inventory is generally supplied by external sources.
The Functional Administrator or Compliance Manager regularly imports:
• regulations
• requirements (first and second level)
To execute import:
Select Home > My Tools > Excel > Import.For more details on the import tool, see HOPEX Common FeaturesPour plus de détails sur l'outil d'import, voir Exchanging Data with Excel.Legal Inventory Objects
Legal Inventory Context
Regulations and requirements can be organized by:
• process (business or organizational)
• entity
• risk
Regulations and requirements can be:
• connected to risks and to all levels of processes and entities
• connected to several processes, entities and risks
Legal Inventory Hierarchy
Legal inventory repository objects are managed as follows:
The Compliance Manager manages the hierarchy of the legal inventory and can connect regulations and requirements to processes, entities and risks.
For more details, see Managing Regulations and Requirements.