Japan s nuclear regulator did not enforce stricter security rules.

When I was a regulator, I would certainly have denied it.

But the FSB is not a treaty based global regulator with enforcement powers.

A regulator designed banking system would make that aim more difficult to achieve.

If Europe has a single market and a single currency, it needs a single bank regulator.

Some areas of the economy remain susceptible to market failures, and the role of the sector regulator remains relevant.

Certification is not granted until the facility has been inspected by the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator (OGTR).

Here, A mouse has climbed into the blower behind the regulator rack, set blower to vibrating. Result no more mouse.

The official in question was Adair Turner, the head of the United Kingdom Financial Services Authority, the country s chief financial regulator.

The largest scope for renewed private investment is in capital intensive sectors in which government has a major presence as regulator.

Financial markets and institutions with global reach need a global macro prudential regulator, not just a loosely organized college of supervisors.

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner, which was the national privacy regulator, was integrated into the OAIC on 1 November 2010.

Banks are overseen by a home regulator in their country of incorporation, and by a series of host regulators where they operate.

The globalization of markets is acting as a powerful economic regulator of economies, but it is also destabilizing the world s weakest zones.

A single regulator might also be expected to develop a more coherent view of trends in the financial sector as a whole.

In the food industry, acetic acid is used under the food additive code E260 as an acidity regulator and as a condiment.

Also, future regulatory legislation could follow the approach of the Telecommunications Act, which set out the interface between the FTC and the regulator.

The reliability and size of the European Union s farm output means that it can and should play the role of regulator in global markets.

A fashionable approach was known as twin peaks, whereby one regulator handled prudential regulation setting capital requirements while another oversaw adherence to business rules.

Among the single regulator countries, Singapore and the Scandinavians were successful in dodging most of the fatal bullets, while the UK evidently was not.

The central bank is perhaps the most important of these institutions, for it conducts monetary policy (and sometimes serves as the financial sector regulator).

The regulator has expressed its doubts on the real effectiveness of this kind of system in the context of the mobile market in Singapore.

The Gene Technology Regulator also certifies containment facilities known to be used for gene technology work and some not used for gene technology work.

combine technical and economic regulation in a sector specific regulator and leave competition law enforcement entirely in the hands of the competition agency organize technical regulation as a stand alone function and include economic regulation within the competition agency combine technical and economic regulation in a sector specific regulator and give it all or some competition law enforcement functions.

In all likelihood, we will see huge changes in the next few years, quite possibly in the form of an international financial regulator or treaty.

It is hard to argue that the British system performed any more effectively than the American, so the single regulator movement has suffered reputational damage.

And there were also jurisdictions that had canceled the licenses of the operators in question, so that, as one regulator put it, they simply didn t exist.

But, when the music stops, it is the home regulator, and the home central bank, that picks up the tab, even if the losses were incurred elsewhere.

Some forms of DC (such as that produced by a voltage regulator) have almost no variations in voltage, but may still have variations in output power and current.

Most commonly it is a title given to a government regulator in the fields of freedom of information and the protection of personal data in the widest sense.

The World Bank has also funded studies to review the telecommunications sector and recommend sector development strategies, develop the legal and regulatory framework and establish an independent regulator.

In the financial sector, the incompetent take on more risk, hoping to hit the jackpot, even while the regulator protects them by deeming them too systemically important to fail.

Participants in these sectors are used to operating under a fixed price regime they were probably actively involved in the price setting, providing information and recommendations to the regulator.

And Greenspan eschews paternalism he would not assume the role of a regulator telling people that they cannot buy a house even though a lender is willing to finance it.

Former US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, the world s leading financial regulator of the past quarter century, seemed to have little faith in either regulators or the need for regulation.

Addressing the CITC, the telecom industry regulator in Saudi Arabia, user Badr Al Atibi tweeted you only care about the interests of telecommunication companies, the citizen is your last concern.

Even social democracy, which, particularly in Scandinavia, was an excellent regulator of capitalism, found itself muted in the controversy between Keynesians and monetarists, and, throughout the developed world, the monetarists won.

But the blocking was restored some months later, after telecom regulator ANRT upheld the ban in a controversial decision, ruling that VOIP services do not have licenses to operate in Morocco.

The Commission required the merged entity to reduce its concentration of spectrum from 85mghz to 50mghz in a reasonable period of time, which was to be determined by the telecommunications regulator.

In the UK, there are now over five million fuel poor people, and the country s electricity regulator now publicly worries that environmental targets could lead to blackouts in less than nine months.

As Oliver Hart and I explained in a recent paper, this can be done easily, with a regulator intervening every time the credit default swaps on the financial institutions debt becomes too high.

The majority of jurisdictions are generally able to effectively enforce their competition legislation within these confines, which often imply a blurring of the competition authority and sector regulator jurisdictions or a policy vacuum.

Likewise, the lack of a federal insurance regulator had left AIG regulated by the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) and the New York State Insurance Department, which proved to be a wholly inadequate arrangement.

In non transition sectors, if it is decided to combine economic regulation with responsibility for ensuring non discriminatory access to necessary inputs, this is probably better done within a regulator than within the competition agency.

After an hour in these conditions, it's so extreme that, when I go down, almost every dive I vomit into my regulator because my body can't deal with the stress of the cold on my head.