This article addresses compliance within the European regulatory framework, arguing for the need to move beyond traditional ontological models toward epistemological approaches to compliance-based analysis: what has been termed as a sematic turn. Static representations of legal norms are increasingly inadequate to capture the complexity of technologically mediated regulatory environments and the dynamics of living law, particularly where compliance assessment involves human and non-human cognitive processes and public administrative action. The contribution conceptualizes compliance not as a binary condition of conformity, but as a dynamic process of knowledge production, interpretation, and justification, closely linked to conditions of structural anomie and regulatory uncertainty. Drawing on legal philosophy and legal informatics, and engaging with phenomenological perspectives, the analysis reconstructs the epistemic dynamics underlying compliance practices, focusing on the intelligibility of legal provisions, risk-based governance, and explainability requirements. The examination of European regulatory regimes such as the GDPR, the NIS II Directive, and the Artificial Intelligence Act highlights the emergence of plural epistemic foundations capable of integrating legal, linguistic, technological, and organizational dimensions. From this perspective, the article argues that a transition to epistemologies of compliance is both theoretically necessary and practically relevant for governing complex regulatory systems shaped by advanced technologies.
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