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A regulatory agency (regulatory body, regulator) or independent agency (independent regulatory agency) is a government authority that is responsible for exercising autonomous jurisdiction over some area of human activity in a licensing and regulating capacity.
Regulating services include carbon sequestration (contributing to climate change mitigation) as well as waste treatment and disease regulation and buffer zones. Supporting services of coastal ecosystems include nutrient cycling , biologically mediated habitats and primary production .
In the United States, a public utilities commission (PUC), utilities commission, utility regulatory commission (URC), or public service commission (PSC) is a governing body that regulates the rates and services of a public utility, such as an electric utility.
A public utility company (usually just utility) is an organization that maintains the infrastructure for a public service (often also providing a service using that infrastructure). Public utilities are subject to forms of public control and regulation ranging from local community-based groups to statewide government monopolies.
Regulatory capture is the process through which a regulatory agency, created to act in the public interest, instead advances the commercial or special concerns of interest groups that dominate the industry it is meant to regulate. [2]
Regulation E applies to a wide range of electronic fund transfers. An electronic fund transfer authorizes financial institutions to either debit or credit customer accounts.
Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency of Turkey (BRSA) ; Capital Markets Board (SPK) ; Insurance and Private Pension Regulation and Supervision Agency (IPRSA) Turks and Caicos: Turks and Caicos Islands Financial Services Commission (TCIFSC) Uganda: Bank of Uganda ; Capital Markets Authority (CMA) ; Insurance Regulatory Authority of Uganda ...
A first-of-its-kind proposal in Oklahoma aims to regulate storm chasing, one of the state's biggest attractions. A bill making its way through the state Senate would institute a licensing program ...