This ontology defines general purpose concepts for representation of regulatory agencies, also known as regulatory authorities or regulators. It was derived from the FIBO Regulatory Agencies, Legal Capacity, and Jurisdictions ontologies and simplified/adapted for broader use.
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The https://www.omg.org/spec/Commons/20240801/RegulatoryAgencies.rdf version of the ontology was modified to integrate the authorization pattern (COMMONS13-38).
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jurisdiction
power of a court or regulatory agency to adjudicate cases, issue orders, and interpret and apply the law with respect to some specific geographic area
public authority or government agency responsible for exercising authority over something in a regulatory or supervisory capacity
See http://www.finra.org/AboutFINRA/ for an example describing a regulatory agency.
Typically, a regulatory agency is chartered to protect some constituancy, (e.g., investors in the financial industry, consumers with respect to product safety), to ensure the fairness and integrity of some market, and fair and safe business practices among the service providers in that market.
document required to support operational transparency that demonstrates compliance with some specification, law, policy, restriction, or other rule specified by a regulatory agency
Such a report may be needed for licensing, monitoring, taxation, or for other purposes that demonstrate the integrity, fairness, safety, or other capacity of a given industry, organization, or product.
service provided by a regulatory agency, which may include, but not be limited to, examination, monitoring, supervision, testing, or other capabilities required to ensure the integrity, fairness, safety, or other capacity of a given industry, organization, or product
relates a polity, government entity or regulatory agency to a jurisdiction over which it has some level of legal authority
indicates the geographic region covered by the jurisdiction
indicates the geopolitical region identifier for the jurisdiction in which something is applicable
relates a contract, agreement, jurisdiction, or other legal construct and the regulation, policy, procedure, or legal person that regulates or oversees (governs) it
relates a jurisdiction to a polity or other government entity or court that has some level of legal authority over it
indicates the jurisdiction whose laws a legal entity is organized under
indicates the jurisdiction in which a legal person is considered competent to enter into a contract, conduct business, or participate in other activities, or in which an agreement may be acknowledged and possibly enforceable
specifies a regulatory agency that has regulatory authority for something
has regulatory authority over or directs according to rule or law, typically an industry, organization, or product