This article makes an attempt to investigate the linguocultural aspects of the term "compliance" and the non-accidental appearance of this phenomenon in various spheres of reality, including legal, linguistics, and economic. In Russian reality, there is no equivalent to this phenomenon, and in the Russian language there is no definition of the term "compliance". In this work, an attempt is made to comprehend this concept, the ways of its functioning and understanding precisely within the framework of Russian reality and language. The authors identified such a phenomenon as compliance procedures. Compliance procedures take into account risks that a particular area of business may endure, control observation of the current laws, they make it possible to consider factors affecting the implementation of some type of economic activity. The main principles of realization of compliance control are also highlighted.