Law, logic and business processes

Since its inception one of the aims of legal informatics has been to provide tools to support and improve the day to day activities of legal and normative practice and a better understanding of legal reasoning. The internet revolutions, where more and more daily activities are routinely performed with the support of ITC tools, offers new opportunities to legal informatics. We argue that the current technology begins to be mature enough to embrace in the challenge to make intelligent ICT support widespread in the legal and normative domain. In this paper we examine a logical model to encode norms and we use the formalisation of relevant law and regulations for regulatory compliance for business processes.