statutory
 regulatory agency/authority/body
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an official organization that is responsible for checking whether a business is working legally and according to rules or laws:
Any regulatory agency can shut down a project if it does not meet health and safety standards.
Regulatory bodies in Europe are questioning the drug's safety.

Examples of regulatory

regulatory
State and local governments also have considerable regulatory authority over granting siting permits necessary for the operation of many types of facilities.
Molecular biological techniques are very helpful to detect parasite-induced changes in the regulatory systems concerned.
The central theoretical concern focuses on the idea of regulatory ritualism and its key role in regulatory capitalism.
Although the story is far from complete, several regulatory pathways have already been implicated in the normal and aberrant activity of telomerase in human cells.
Here, comparisons of national regulatory practices are made and recommendations for common standards are proposed.
It should also look into the issue whether regulatory competition is really a race and if so what do we mean by that.
The body, its demarcation and differentiation, is a regulatory ideal whose materialisation takes place through certain highly regulated, powerful cultural practices.
Empirically, regulatory competition is related to regulatory cooperation in two ways.
We argue that experimental standards in economics are regulatory in that they allow for little variation between the experimental practices of individual researchers.
Parasitoids and miscellaneous factors acted as densitydependent regulatory agents during the pre-ovipositional and first instar stages respectively.
Ultimately, utilising an accreditation scheme, as a secondary or supplemental regulatory instrument to an established policy regime, would safeguard against voluntary industry dominated regulation.
For example, regulatory competition is only effective among market economies.
The mechanism of regulatory competition has thus stronger effects in countries whose economies are highly economically integrated and weaker effects in less integrated countries.
In what kind of areas are we more likely to witness synergies between regulatory policy and market forces?
A puzzling fact is the existence of widespread over-compliance of banks regarding national and international regulatory capital requirements.
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