Technical due diligences

Due diligences have different layers of work: financial, market value, people engaged in the company, etc. Technical side of the due diligences have evolved a lot and now there are many recipes but some consensus about what you should cover as minimum. The technical side of a due diligence is basically a health check of … Read more

HIPAA + SRA Tool

What is HIPAA? In 1996, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act or the HIPAA was endorsed by the U.S. Congress. The HIPAA Privacy Rule, also called the Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information, provided the first nationally-recognizable regulations for the use/disclosure of an individual’s health information. Essentially, the Privacy Rule defines how … Read more

More market for security business

The industry of security on IT continues evolving and increasing the amount of activities. More new created needs due to a continuous growth of the security issues and the need to protect intellectual property. So many markets are created through legislation that turn into more and more complex compliance activities. OMB: Agencies must implement continuous … Read more

European Aviation Safety Agency

European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) with regulatory and executive tasks in the field of civilian aviation safety. Production Organization Approvals (POAs) are managed by EASA in accordance with Subpart G of Regulation (EC). The agency is responsible for: The management of all applications from non EU countries (or from an EU country upon request of … Read more

Single european payments area

Better late than never, now learning the basic concepts of the SEPA, I have read the basis from different articles, and I found this useful video, Commitments for February 2014: SCT  = SEPA Credit Transfer SDD = SEPA Direct Debit The corporate companies have to replace their national process by the SEPA ones.  

The weird call of the week

I have received a fun call Today: Me: what can I do for you? Other: I want to implement Reach on my client. Have you installed Reach on your client? Me: no, I have not done it. What do you mean? Other: someone told me you worked on Reach activities. Me: That’s true. But we have not … Read more

Authorized Economic Operator (AEO)

During the work with the Logistics business unit, we are helping them to get the AEO certification. The obtention of this certification has a great value for their business: it allows them to access to some simplification during the custom process. http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/customs/policy_issues/customs_security/aeo/index_en.htm Member States can grant the AEO status to any economic operator meeting the following common … Read more