ARCCS: An Automated Regulatory Compliance Checking System

arXiv:2610.01345 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-10-01 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-10-01

Updated: 2026-10-01

Comments: This is the extended version of a paper accepted to EMNLP 2026 (System Demonstrations)

Project page: https://geofila.github.io/ARCCS

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

The gist: Regulatory compliance checking - deciding whether a target document satisfies the obligations of a regulation - requires interpreting dense legal text, identifying which provisions apply, and

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Regulatory compliance checking - deciding whether a target document satisfies the obligations of a regulation - requires interpreting dense legal text, identifying which provisions apply, and grounding each decision in explicit evidence. We present ARCCS, an end-to-end, automated, agentic, and regulation-agnostic Legal NLP system for compliance checking. ARCCS decomposes raw regulatory text into atomic, traceable requirements and evaluates a target document against them using retrieved evidence, confidence scores, and human-interpretable justifications. This design decouples compliance assessment from any fixed regulatory template or predefined rule set, enabling the pipeline to operate over regulations of varying size and structure. We evaluate ARCCS in two complementary settings. First, in a GDPR policy-document evaluation, LLM-based judges find its decisions and justifications legally and evidentially consistent in up to 96.67% of the assessed cases. Second, on an EU public-procurement benchmark comprising more than 1,200 individual rule checks, the system attains 98.8% accuracy in violation detection. ARCCS is, to our knowledge, the first fully open-source system for end-to-end regulatory compliance checking and auditable report generation.

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