This Standard provides principles and guidance for designing, developing, implementing, maintaining and improving a flexible, responsive, effective and measurable compliance program within an organization.Section 2 sets out the essential principles which will be common to all effective compliance programs. Sections 3 to 6 contain guidance regarding those principles, recognizing that the implementation and management of an effective compliance program which complies with those principles will differ for each organization depending on the size, nature and complexity of its operations and its specific circumstances.This Standard is designed to complement the documents listed in the Bibliography at AppendixA.