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Knowing the real legal situation of a company — its contracts, licences, criminal risk exposure, employment compliance, insurance cover — is the first step to managing it correctly. In many cases, the most costly problems are not those that arrive suddenly, but those that have been accumulating silently in inherited contracts, unreviewed policies, poorly structured employment relationships or undetected customs non-compliance. A legal audit is the tool that allows these issues to be identified before they become litigation, sanctions or liability.
At Vectoris Legal we conduct comprehensive legal audits tailored to each company's actual operations. We do not work with generic templates: we analyse the real documentation the company uses, identify legal exposure points with precision and assist the client in implementing the necessary improvements. The result always includes a legal risk report, an action plan and recommendations and, when necessary, revised or newly drafted contractual documentation.
Our legal and contractual audit analyses the existing legal and contractual risk in the company's operations, covering: administrative compliance (transport licences, professional certificates, regulatory registrations), contract model review with clients and subcontractors, claims and insurance management protocols, and production of all necessary contractual documentation (standard client and carrier contracts, logistics service agreements, House Bill of Lading clauses, General Conditions of Contract).
Companies with import or export activity accumulate unidentified customs risk that can materialise in a tax inspection. Our preventive customs audit covers: tariff classification review, customs value analysis, origin verification (EUR.1, invoice declarations, REX), review of special customs procedures in use (inward processing, temporary admission, customs warehousing), evaluation of existing customs authorisations (AEO, ADT, LAME) and analysis of AEAT information obligations (Form 349, Intrastat, DAC6).
The compliance audit (gap analysis) evaluates whether the company's criminal offence prevention system meets the requirements of Article 31 bis of the Spanish Criminal Code and the UNE 19601 and ISO 37001 standards. In the transport and logistics sector, the most relevant criminal risks are: customs fraud, smuggling, tax offences, money laundering and corruption in dealings with customs officials or port authority personnel.
Our employment audit covers: contract policy review, payroll and salary structure analysis under the applicable road transport collective agreement, driving time and rest compliance under Regulation (EC) 561/2006, review of self-employment and TRADE relationships for bogus self-employment risk, health and safety compliance, and Social Security contribution verification.
For acquisitions, mergers and investor entries into transport and logistics companies, we conduct legal and tax due diligence with full knowledge of the sector's specific risks — transport licences, charterparties, customs authorisations, port concessions, driver and crew employment. We coordinate the process with our specialist collaborators and produce a single consolidated due diligence report.
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