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description: Integrate regulations into your operational workflows so that your front-line staff can execute business processes smoothly and stay compliant. Create regulatory authority records, regulation and regulation versions, and regulation clauses and their versions. Establish a link between regulation clause versions and a regulation version. To ensure compliance within your organization, publish the regulation versions and map business operations processes to regulation clause versions.
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# Create Regulations and Associate Them with Business Operations Processes

Integrate regulations into your operational workflows so that your front-line staff can execute business processes smoothly and stay compliant. Create regulatory authority records, regulation and regulation versions, and regulation clauses and their versions. Establish a link between regulation clause versions and a regulation version. To ensure compliance within your organization, publish the regulation versions and map business operations processes to regulation clause versions.

### Required Editions

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small edition"><colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: Lightning Experience</td></tr><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: All Industry Clouds, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=ind.business_compliance_suite_editions.htm&amp;release=264.0.0&amp;type=5" title="Review the supported editions and availability for Process Compliance Navigator.">View editions availability</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table>

- **[Create a Regulatory Authority Record](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=ind.business_compliance_suite_create_regulatory_authority.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Capture essential details about the authorities responsible for defining regulatory codes and issuing licenses or permits. Store information such as the regulatory authority’s name, description, the region of legal jurisdiction, and the type of authority. Include links to relevant resources for quick reference and add comments for notes or observations.
- **[Create a Regulation and a Regulation Version](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=ind.business_compliance_suite_create_regulation_version.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Capture regulation details such as the authority issuing a regulation, domains covered by a regulation, applications that are impacted, and links to official documents for quick reference. You can also assign a regulation manager who is responsible for ensuring compliance with the regulation.
- **[Create a Regulation Clause and a Regulation Clause Version](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=ind.business_compliance_suite_create_regulation_clause_version.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Store granular details of every provision or section within a regulation. Create regulation clause records and capture information such as name, description, associated regulation, and parent regulation clause. You can also add comments and references to supporting documents to provide comprehensive information and context.
- **[Map a Regulation Clause Version to a Regulation Version](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=ind.business_compliance_suite_map_regulation_clause_version_regulation_version.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Compliance Officers review the list of regulation clause versions associated with a regulation version. They can also map or unmap regulation clause versions to the regulation version, ensuring accurate and up-to-date regulatory compliance.
- **[Publish a Regulation Version and a Regulation Clause Version](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=ind.business_compliance_suite_publish_regulation_version_regulation_clause_version.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    You compliance officer publishes the regulation version along with its mapped regulation clause versions. Publishing a regulation version makes sure that control managers, business process representatives, and policy owners can access and adhere to the established rules and guidelines.
- **[Map a Regulation Clause Version to a Business Operations Process](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=ind.business_compliance_suite_map_business_process_clause_version.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    To enhance traceability and make sure that process owners can quickly assess the impact of regulation amendments, compliance officers associate business operations processes with relevant regulation clause versions. By linking business processes with regulation clauses, organizations can maintain compliance and quickly adapt to regulatory changes.
- **[Map a Regulation Clause Version to an Asset](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=ind.business_compliance_suite_asset_regulations.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    To improve traceability of assets governed by regulations, and make sure that asset owners can easily access regulation updates, compliance officers link assets to the relevant regulation clause versions.