Consideraciones críticas sobre el public compliance como instrumento de gestión de la desconfianza

This article contains some critical considerations on the implementation of compliance programs in the public sector. To this end, it offers a brief summary of the background, purposes and content of compliance programs, as well as the European and international standards that impose or recommend their transfer to the public sector. The so‐called public compliance comes from a double importation or legal transplant, from foreign law —specifically from common law— and from a private law model —specifically from the self‐regulation of companies—. This article argues that the distrust in the public sphere on which the imported model is based undermine the foundations of continentalEuropean administrative law, traditionally based on trust in the administration