comply-or-explain
C2CEFR level
88/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
Describing a regime that lets firms depart from a code provided they publicly justify the deviation.
Under the comply-or-explain regime we can skip the provision, but the disclosure had better be convincing.
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