Compliance in the supply chain

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This subtopic brings together materials of relevance relating to compliance with various laws in relation to the supply chain.

Precedent: Supply chain compliance schedule—pro-customer is for use in business-to-business supply chain contracts when the parties to the agreement wish to detail compliance obligations in a schedule rather than detailing them as clauses in the main body of the agreement. The Precedent includes provisions regarding the prevention of bribery, modern slavery, tax evasion facilitation, and fraud. Further information on each of these matters can be found below.

Precedent: Compliance with law and regulation clause is a boilerplate clause which can be used in a supply chain contract to set out a general obligation on the parties to comply with laws and regulations.

Bribery

This part of the subtopic considers the key aspects of the Bribery Act 2010 (BA 2010), where the risk of bribery and corruption arises in the supply chain, and how that risk can be managed contractually. Bribery and corruption continue to remain a major issue in world trade, despite dedicated efforts to prevent them over many years.

BA 2010 applies

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