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Regulation based on Continuous Control Monitoring could reduce the administrative burden for companies. Often, companies already have elaborate internal control and quality management systems. Instead of periodic physical inspections, regulatory supervision can partly be automated and performed on a continuous basis. The regulator gets access to a validated copy of key data elements from the company’s internal information systems, which serve as indicator of compliance to specific control objectives. In this paper we describe an information architecture for continuous control monitoring, and show how it can be applied to supervision of regulatory compliance. The approach is illustrated by a pilot project in the Netherlands of applying continuous control monitoring to food safety regulations in the meat processing industry. Participants concluded that the approach is technically feasible but requires a different mindset towards regulation, and a clear business case.
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Hulstijn, J. et al. (2011). Continuous Control Monitoring-Based Regulation: A Case in the Meat Processing Industry. In: Salinesi, C., Pastor, O. (eds) Advanced Information Systems Engineering Workshops. CAiSE 2011. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 83. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22056-2_26
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