The multiple threats posed by unrestricted climate change, ozone depletion, and pollution, among others, has made the need for some form of global regulatory infrastructure more urgent than ever.

The nuclear regulatory infrastructure has been in place since 1965, when the Pakistan Research Reactor was commissioned in 1965.

"One of our priorities is to assist states in creating and strengthening national regulatory infrastructures to ensure that these radioactive sources are appropriately regulated and adequately secured at all times."

Long-Term Capital's troubles demonstrate that "the regulatory infrastructure is not strong enough or encompassing enough," said Henry Kaufman, an independent market strategist.

But the risk is that they could wind up with a marketplace in which market data are more fragmented - or one in which the loss of data revenue impairs the maintenance of the technological and regulatory infrastructure.

Our robust regulatory infrastructure has accounted for the possibility of a "station blackout" like what occurred at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.

CREATe will examine the business, regulatory and cultural infrastructure of the cultural and creative industries by exploring cutting-edge questions around digitisation, copyright, and innovation in the arts and technology.

Matt F. Andresen, president of Island ECN, said the additional capital would help build a regulatory infrastructure needed to become a national securities exchange.

Mr. Rubin wrote of the "need to develop and maintain strong supervisory regimes and regulatory infrastructures" as the Asian financial crisis was in its first stages.

Building a complicated new regulatory infrastructure for the productive sectors of our country will likely have a negative impact on our global competitiveness.