Compliance cannot be a trophy on the wall. It must be real practice.

Over the past months, I have lived through an experience that exposes a serious structural weakness in corporate compliance models based solely on formal certifications.

When I requested that my concrete case - a formal complaint, officially accepted and investigated - be used as a practical compliance test, I received a clear response from the certification body responsible for ISO 37301:2021:

📌 No material analysis was carried out. No real case was audited. No investigation was examined.

This reveals a systemic problem:

Companies display sophisticated certifications, international seals, impeccable policies, extensive codes of ethics - but without any real-world validation of practice.

When compliance is not tested through real cases, it turns into:

✔️ institutional rhetoric

✔️ reputational marketing

✔️ formal shielding

✔️ and, ultimately, regulatory fiction

The question that remains is simple:

📌 What is the value of a compliance system that is not tested when it truly matters?

Certifications cannot be mere trophies on the wall.

They must be living instruments of control, transparency, and real accountability.

Without this, the gap between discourse and practice widens - and public trust disappears.