Commercial space activities conducted by U.S. companies are regulated by the federal government in four major areas: space launches, remote sensing, communications, and limitation of the transfer of technology for reasons of national security and...

Regulation, here defined as any rule laid down by the government which affects the activities of other agents in the economy, takes many forms, but in general the types of activities concerned and the methods of control vary together. Three broad areas...

Regulations are very detailed rules created by authoritative bodies and applicable to specific areas of life. Very often ‘regulation’ will apply to rules inside organizations and public bodies. It is relatively rare to talk about a...

A piece of legislation made under the powers of an ACT. In practice more than one Regulation is usually contained in a single document and collectively they are known as ‘Regulations’ with each discrete section or paragraph being denoted as...

Regulation can be considered as legal restrictions promulgated by government authority. One can consider at least two levels in democracies -- legislative acts, and implementing specifications of conduct imposed by administrative agencies through...

AHEAD of the looming budget, 10 and 11 Downing Street are displaying a touch of unwonted solidarity in their determination to cut the burden of regulation on business. Which perhaps proves that Brown and Blair really are scoundrels, in that every government of modern...

Over the last several years, the accounting profession has been wrestling with the degree to which it should be regulated. Recently, in an extreme interpretation of the apparent motto "The only good regulation is no regulation," the profession confronted the AICPA's proposal for a...

The use of subatomic materials as microscopic building blocks for thousands of consumer products has turned into a big business so quickly that few are monitoring the so-called nanotechnology's effects on health and the environment.So Berkeley intends to be the first city to step into...

The Berkeley City Council has approved the nation's only local nanotechnology regulations, another first for the city already famous for taking the lead in banning Styrofoam containers, desegregating public schools and divesting public funds from South Africa.The council on Tuesday decided to amend its hazardous...