Of course, no technology is without flaws, so regulatory oversight is useful.

In theory, the Philippine authorities should have exercised their regulatory oversight with far more diligence.

For example, Japan s nuclear regulatory authority was not sufficiently independent, and oversight of the plant operator, TEPCO, was weak.

That will include better harmonization of national regulatory approaches to ensure at all times high quality, independent oversight for nuclear activities.

A wide range of remote monitoring techniques and technologies exist, outside of normal regulatory oversight, e.g. hyperspectral imaging systems and satellite imagery.

The UNIDO programme on biosafety assists developing countries and countries with economies in transition to build up their institutional capacities, especially those relating to regulatory oversight and compliance with internationally agreed standards.

Regulatory issues

Regulatory action

Absent international coordination, the opportunities for destructive regulatory competition will defeat regulatory reform.

Other regulatory controls

Internal oversight

Oversight Committee

Oversight lacunae

Internal oversight

Enhancing governance oversight role structure, working methods and practices on handling oversight reports

These oversight mechanisms were referred to as either audit committees or oversight committees.

Legal and regulatory environment3

Management and oversight

Governance and oversight

Accountability and oversight

(a) Oversight lacunae

We agree that the Office of Internal Oversight Services should provide internal oversight services for small United Nations agencies with insufficient current oversight capacity.

The Harm of Regulatory Disharmony

Regulatory philosophies are converging, too.

Franchising poses particular regulatory challenges.

Protection oversight and support

Oversight, evaluation and monitoring

Enhancing oversight and accountability

Independent oversight advisory committee

Independent oversight advisory committee

For example, notwithstanding the regulatory and safety oversight authority of the Civil Aviation Caretaker Authority for Somalia, the authorities at Hargeisa airport, which is the busiest airport in Somalia, unilaterally shut down the airport early in 2005 for the resealing of the runway.

Ensuring effective oversight is one key function of parliament, and it includes oversight of the security forces.

Strengthening of the oversight mechanisms

(i) Accountability, audit and oversight

Relationship with other oversight bodies

Office of Internal Oversight Services

Management and oversight of programmes

Office of Internal Oversight Services

But there are indications that the process is being driven by regulatory change, and in some cases by regulatory protectionism.

A Regulatory Impact Analysis or Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) is a document created before a new government regulation is introduced.

In the sixth preambular paragraph, the words national and legal regulatory infrastructure should be replaced by national, legal and regulatory infrastructure .

Other big legal and regulatory costs loom.

Policy, Regulatory Frameworks and Equitable Benefit Sharing

Item 13 Internal audit and oversight

(a) In the sixth preambular paragraph, the words national and legal regulatory infrastructure were replaced by the words national legal and regulatory infrastructure