Comment on Regulatory Enforcement
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What is ‘Regulatory Enforcement’?
Regulators have various tools which they can use to help businesses comply and stay within the rules:
Advice and guidance
Regulators will often provide businesses with general or sometimes tailored advice and guidance to help them understand and comply with the rules.
Examples include:
- Codes of Practice
- Industry guides
- regional seminars
- information provided on their websites
- helplines
- information campaigns
Requests for data and risk assessment
Regulators sometimes ask businesses to complete paper or electronic forms to help them to make decisions about future enforcement activity. This can include risk assessments which help the regulator target their efforts toward businesses considered to be at risk of not complying with regulations.
Inspections
A business might be inspected to check their compliance against a number of standards, ranging from health and safety to food safety standards.
Sanctions
Where a business fails to comply with its duties, a regulator has a choice of sanctions available to them, which can range from cautions and notices through to prosecution.
Share your experiences of enforcement and regulators below
- How has enforcement placed an unnecessary burden on you or your business?
- Have you experienced overlap between different enforcement organisations? If so how?
- Can you share any experiences of particularly overzealous enforcement that is beyond the remit of the regulation?
- Where do you feel that you or your sector could manage compliance without intervention by enforcers?
- Where enforcement works well and is helpful?
If you work in enforcement, and want to share your comments anonymously then you can do so here.
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What do we mean by ‘Regulatory Enforcement’?
Here are some examples
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There should be more enforcement of current restrictions particularly environmental.