Better Regulation Commission

• European Commission Promotes Better Regulation for Growth and Jobs in the EU.

INTRODUCTION The European Commission recognises that improving the quality of regulation can significantly spur growth in the EU economy and assist ...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• Nbr. 2005, January 2005

• Swap Data Repositories:

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• FR, September 01, 2011
• Rules
• Commodity Futures Trading Commission

• Long Island-Based Cablevision's Impasse Leads to Call for Regulation

The contract dispute that led News Corp. to pull its programming from Cablevision is prompting a new call for the Federal Communications Commission to develop better regulation of what's known as "retransmission agreements. These deals for the most part have been treated as contracts between businesses, with little involvement by the FCC.

• Long Island Business News
• October 25, 2010

• MCI Telecommunications Corp. v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co., 512 U.S. 218 (1994)

... with the Federal Communications Commission, and § 203(b)(2) authorizes the Commission to "mo...' argument that their interpretation better serves the Act's broad purpose of promoting effici... of greater competition, passed regulations to facilitate competitive entry. By 1979, competit...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• Environmentalists Push Stricter Regulation for Gas Drillers

The four environmental groups on the governor's Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission agree they want to see stricter regulation of wastewater from drilling, better planning, and updates to the Oil and Gas Act aimed at improving safety and collecting data. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation, The Nature Conservancy, the Pennsylvania Environmental Council and the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy submitted a total of 20 recommendations to the commission.

• Tribune - Review / Pittsburgh Tribune - Review
• June 20, 2011

• Structural Reform of Financial Regulation

Preface - II. Original introduction - III. Designing an optimal regulatory system - A. Regulatory Objectives - B. Characteristics of an Optimal Regulatory System - C. Regulatory Strategies - D. Organization of the Regulatory System - IV. Canada’s regulatory system - A. Current Structure of Canada’s Regulatory System - B. Comments on Canada’s Regulatory System - V. Comparative analysis of the united kingdom, australia, united states, france, germany, the netherlands, and hong kong - A. The United Kingdom - B. Australia - C. The United States - 1. Current System - 2. Calls for Reform - 3. U.S. Treasury Blueprint for a Modernized Financial Regulatory Structure - a) Market Stability Regulation - b) Prudential Regulation - c) Business Conduct Regulation - D. France - E. Germany - F. Hong ...

• Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems
• Nbr. 19-3, January 2011

• New Sec Chief Faces Risk in Two Directions ; the Results of Lax Regulation Have Become Obvious, but Too Much Can Smother Markets.

The Bernard Madoff scandal has understandably touched off angry calls for better regulation from the Securities and Exchange Commission. But as regulators clamp down under the new Obama administration, they should know that there's risk in overreacting as well as with doing nothing.

• Portland Press Herald
• January 09, 2009

• Natural Resources Committee Considers Groundwater Plan

Trillions of gallons of rain, sleet and snow trickle through the rocks and soil of Maine each year, recharging a groundwater resource that is becoming world-famous. But with industries such as one of the world's biggest water-bottling companies, ski mountains that depend on wells for their snowmaking equipment, and an agricultural sector that increasingly is reliant on irrigation, Maine can't afford to become complacent, state geologist Bob Marvinney told legislators Thursday. Lawmakers on the Natural Resources Committee are considering a bill, supported by Gov. John E. Baldacci, calling for better groundwater planning in Maine. The Maine Department of Environmental Protection, Land Use Regulation Commission, Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Conservation all hav...

• Bangor Daily News
• May 16, 2005

• Verizon Communications Inc. v. FCC, 535 U.S. 467 (2002)

...ET AL. v. . FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION ET AL. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF AP...Regulations appended to the FCC's First Report and Order under...Without any better indication of meaning than the unadorned term, the...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• Michigan's Cable Competition Still Stagnant

LANSING, Mich., April 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Local regulation must be restored if Michigan's cable customers are to be rescued from rapidly rising rates and poor customer service according to the Michigan Chapter of the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors (MI-NATOA) and the Michigan Chapter of the Alliance for Community Media (MI-ACM). The call for renewed regulation of the cable industry followed a recent report issued by the Michigan Public Service Commission; the MPSC's report concluded, for the fourth straight year, that "competition in the video services market is still increasing. Cable was deregulated in Michigan in 2006 at the urging of phone and cable companies. Lawmakers who favored the elimination of regulation argued that widespread competitio...

... hasn't led to lower cable prices or better service. State lawmakers have the chance to rethin...

• U.S. Newswire
• April 14, 2011