Armonización europea y previsión de responsabilidad de las personas jurídicas en el Código penal español

Abstract

The latest reforms of the spanish penal code are often justified in its explanatory preambles by the need to adapt spanish legislation to european regulation. This is true also in the Ley Orgánica 5/2010. In it concerning to the possibility of criminal responsibility of legal persons, the legislator opts for a numerus clausus which in this analysis is intended to study to what extent it is faithful to such regulation.