Yes, keeping track of compliance deadlines is basically something you can do yourself. It comes down to a current list of what applies to your business, with a date or recurring moment for each item, and the habit of reviewing that list regularly. Many entrepreneurs do this already, often in a spreadsheet or a calendar with reminders.
Where it gets trickier is not the tracking itself but determining what should be on that list and whether an obligation is still current. That assessment is substantive in nature and that is precisely the point where doing it yourself transitions into something for which you need a lawyer or the competent supervisor.
What keeping track yourself means in practice
Maintaining a list consists of three repeated steps: knowing which obligations apply to your business, knowing when something needs to happen regarding them, and putting those two things side by side at regular intervals. For an installation company, this might involve a periodic notification, for a webshop a registration that needs to be renewed. The content differs, the approach does not: an overview that you keep current yourself only works if you actually consult it.
The risk does not lie in setting it up the first time, but in maintaining it. A list that was last updated three months ago creates a false sense of security: it looks complete but is missing everything that has been added since. That is not a reason to abandon the list, but rather a reason to look at how you can make the updating less dependent on whether you think about it that week.
Where it gets trickier: knowing whether something still applies
The real difficulty does not lie in tracking dates, but in determining whether an obligation applies to your business and continues to apply. Regulations change, exceptions are tightened, and what did not apply to you last year may apply this year — or vice versa. That substantive determination is not a matter of maintaining a calendar, it is a legal assessment. For that question we always refer to a lawyer or to the supervisor responsible for the relevant subject; reglia makes no determination on this itself.
With that, the line is fairly clear: the administrative part — maintaining an overview, seeing deadlines approach, being reminded — you can organize yourself. The substantive part — whether something applies to you, and what exactly is expected of you — belongs with the source itself or with someone who can make a legal judgment about it. If you mix those two, you risk that a list looks complete while the content is no longer correct.
What you can automate yourself, and what you cannot
Part of the work can easily be automated without anyone having to figure something out for you: setting reminders, maintaining a shared overview so that only you know what is happening, and seeing when something has been updated. That is precisely why platforms exist for each field — each maintains the status within that field, and you do not have to remember where you last logged in. At an overview of the platforms that exist you can see which fields are covered and what each platform does in that area.
What you cannot automate is the initial assessment of whether something applies. That remains human work, and if you have any doubt, it is advisable to simply check that with the source rather than going on an assumption. Questions that come up frequently when keeping track of obligations yourself — for example about how often you need to check something — are collected on the page with answers to questions that come up regularly.
Where reglia helps and where it doesn't
Reglia itself provides no explanation about regulations and makes no substantive statement about whether something applies to your company. What reglia does do is bring together the overview of what is happening at the connected platforms, so you don't have to log in separately to see if anything is outstanding. You can read how this works precisely and what happens to your data on the page about what reglia does and does not do with your data.
Keeping track yourself is therefore not a matter of all or nothing. You can organize the administrative part yourself, and consult the source or a lawyer for the substantive part. An overview that connects both together saves time above all — not the responsibility to know what is going on.
Curious which platforms come together within reglia and what field each one focuses on? Check the overview and see which platform suits your situation.