regulatory authority
collocation in Englishmeaningsofregulatoryandauthority
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regulatory
adjective
uk/ˌreɡ.jəˈleɪ.tər.i/us/ˈreɡ.jə.lə.tɔːr.i/
controlling:
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authority
noun
uk/ɔːˈθɒr.ə.ti/us/əˈθɔːr.ə.t̬i/
the moral or legal right or ability ...
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(Definition ofregulatoryandauthorityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofregulatory authority
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Fares have been determined by theregulatoryauthoritybased on basic operating costs with little attention to the quality and type of service provided.
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In keeping with a tightly targeted understanding of political decentralization, however, the state retained broad strategic andregulatoryauthority.
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State and local governments also have considerableregulatoryauthorityover granting siting permits necessary for the operation of many types of facilities.
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However, legislatures delineated the attributes of general laws, and this gave them space for the exercise of promotional andregulatoryauthority.
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This does, however, not mean that nation-states have lost theirregulatoryauthorityby delegating respective powers to supranational or intergovernmental organizations.
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The reasoning behind this was that a company would not be subject to many different laws in countries of reception and would only have to deal with oneregulatoryauthority.
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The admittedly inexact boundaries of the police power, and the lingering uncertainty of the general welfare uses of stateregulatoryauthority, did endow police powers jurisprudence with an inherent vagueness.
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In those relatively few contexts where interference is called for, however, the central principle of self-regarding liberty sets absolute limits to the scope of society'sregulatoryauthority.
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Therefore, the interest in delegatingregulatoryauthorityto autonomous agencies that operate on the basis of general rules seem to be heavily circumscribed by political concerns.
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It involves the sampling of wastes, the presentation of a 'plan of action' to theregulatoryauthority, and the construction and initial operation of any necessary treatment systems/abatement processes.
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The term has come into use in this way precisely because the coercive power andregulatoryauthority of the sovereign state is being called into question.
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In so doing, they hoped to illustrate to judges that the new administrative activity of zoning was conducted within the sphere of legitimate stateregulatoryauthority.
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Access to the transmission grid, the structure of the transmission tariffs, and the rules for cross-border electricity trade are subject to regulations by a supranationalregulatoryauthority.
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These are three key elements as far as theregulatoryauthorityis concerned.
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We therefore really need the kind ofregulatoryauthoritythat will take action to combat any market distortions that may occur.
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Should the project be developed on a commercial basis it will become subject to control by the relevantregulatoryauthority.
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We prefer a privatised industry but a firrnregulatoryauthorityand that is what we have.
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First, the local authority would be theregulatoryauthority.
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In addition, theregulatoryauthoritywill have wide powers to investigate any alleged breaches of regulations or standards.
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Decisions in that context are best undertaken by aregulatoryauthority.
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