21 Jan 2025
📜DOJ Finalizes Guidance Document Regulations Effective January 2025
Processes and Procedures for Issuance and Use of Guidance Documents
Summary
This rule finalizes without change an interim final rule by which the Department of Justice ("Department") removed amendments to its regulations that were made during 2020 pursuant to the now-revoked Executive Order 13891, which had imposed limitations on the use of Department guidance documents in criminal and civil enforcement actions brought by the Department.
Agencies
- Justice Department
Business Impact
$$ - Med
The final rule revises regulatory processes, impacting how businesses may be guided in compliance. The removal of previous restrictions allows the Department of Justice greater flexibility in issuing guidance documents, which can affect enforcement actions and compliance expectations for businesses.