Regulator

Regulator
Government agencies tasked with trying to make markets work in the public interest by e.g. protecting the environment, preventing fraud etc. Often (especially in US) these are subjects of "regulatory capture" whereby they are effectively controlled by the exact same commercial groups they are nominally in charge of regulating.

 

Regulatory Agencies on Wikispooks

Wikispooks page	Date	Logo	WWW	Description
EPA			http://www.epa.gov
Food and Drug Administration	1906 - Present		http://www.fda.gov
Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament	1994 - Present		http://isc.independent.gov.uk	Nominal overseer the UK's main intelligence intelligence agencies such as MI5, MI6, GCHQ, JIC, DIS. Probably completely captured.
Solicitors Regulatory Authority			http://www.sra.org.uk
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission	6 June 1934 - Present		http://www.sec.gov	The US government's agency to regulate the financial sector, generally thought to be completely captured by the larger financial interests.

 

Examples

Page name	Description
"Independent Police Complaints Commission"
Egyptian Civil Aviation Authority
Independent Office for Police Conduct
International Maritime Organization
National Nuclear Security Administration
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Ofcom
Office for Judicial Complaints
Ofsted
Press Complaints Commission
Solicitors Regulatory Authority

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