Impact of Legal Interpretation in Business Process Compliance

Regulations are often written as open norms. Thus, the development of systems that support compliance involves interpretation. Often, compliance officers consider several alternative solutions. Comparing the feasibility and deciding which alternative to select are important tasks. In this paper, we aim to show how analyzing the impact of several interpretation can be supported by requirements engineering tools, in particular, by Legal-URN. Two cases are used to illustrate the importance of interpretation and how Legal-URN facilitates it.