The report was analyzed during the conference entitled "Challenges of Legal Security in Iberoamerica" at the headquarters of the SEGIB (Madrid) from 6 to 8 p.m. (the program is attached) and it presents the change with respect to the traditional approach to the matter, based fundamentally on legal security for business and international commerce, emphasizing the centrality of legal security as the backbone of human development. Thus, it is argued, that "everything that people can do in the exercise of our capacities depends crucially on respect for individual autonomy. But in a context of fragility of legal security, individual autonomy is criticized and we will not be able to make full use of it for two reasons: the first is that the individual decision itself can be restricted by legal uncertainty and, secondly, the fragility of legal security is also reflected in the difficulty to foresee the consequences of our autonomous decisions". This has an obvious impact on economic life, but it goes much further than this: it is a condition for the peaceful exercise of the rights of all citizens. The second major change highlighted in the report is the need to abandon the vision of legal certainty as a claim by private actors towards state authorities. The different spheres of globalization (economic, digital, organized crime, etc.) exceed to a great extent the capacities of the States and make it essential, on the one hand, an international action to harmonize regulations and to collaborate in the control of their compliance, but also, on the other hand, it makes it essential to conceive of private actors themselves (especially large companies) as providers of legal security. In this sense, the activity of private actors can have a great impact on the sustainability and effectiveness of the rights of all citizens. The approach of large companies cannot be, then, merely demanding legal security provided by the states, but it has to be proactive to guarantee it: when a company providing a public service does not meet the conditions provided for, it affects the rights of citizens, or when it becomes an actor of corruption it also destroys legal security. Finally, the report analyzes the challenges to legal security posed by diverse phenomena such as digital transformation and artificial intelligence, organized crime, population accumulation in large megalopolises or the need to strengthen the training of Administrations and Judicial Powers for a better application of the law.
