Sentences with phrase «regulatory loopholes»

"Regulatory loopholes" refers to gaps or weaknesses in laws and regulations that allow individuals or companies to avoid or exploit rules intended to protect the public or ensure fair practices. It means finding ways to bypass or take advantage of regulations without directly breaking the law. Full definition
It's a «cross-border» marketplace that creates a huge, helpful regulatory loophole.
Taking advantage of regulatory loopholes, Internet TV companies have been doing a thriving business by selling set - top boxes and subscription services to consumers who then connect their TV with video - streaming sites such as Sohu TV and Youku.
Mr. Jackson, who holds advanced degrees in business, law and government, has published research that found regulatory loopholes allow corporate insiders to potentially trade on inside information.
This is the case in the U.S. ivory market — one of the largest in the world — where traffickers exploit regulatory loopholes in order to misrepresent illegal ivory as legal ivory.
In an era in which one out of three children are overweight or obese and very few children eat sufficient quantities of fruits and vegetables, the IOM sensibly recommended closing an existing regulatory loophole allowing schools to count the tomato paste on pizza as a school food vegetable.
The next speaker, Megan Munsie, commented that Australia also has regulatory loopholes which allow stem cell clinics to function.
Stop the practice of municipalities evading low - income housing through regulatory loopholes.
He urged Congress to authorize the Department to close regulatory loopholes, strengthen risk management requirements, add more inspectors, and improve data reporting to help identify potential pipeline safety risks early.
Strong leadership globally will be instrumental in closing down these problematic legal ivory markets and removing regulatory loopholes that support the illicit ivory trade.
At first, we thought it might be odd phrasing for an insurance company that does business nationally — as opposed to one of the really tiny unrated ones that do business in a handful of states and take advantage of regulatory loopholes to avoid disclosing their financials.
«Because of a regulatory loophole, these trains can carry crude oil through some of our most densely populated areas without any limit on explosiveness or flammability — creating ticking time bombs that jeopardize the safety of countless New Yorkers and Americans,» Schneiderman said in a statement.
Liquid - based nutritional supplements fall into a regulatory loophole, because the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not consider supplements to be a drug or a «conventional» food.
While Organic Valley is no doubt the worst offender of this regulatory loophole, any other cheese sold in stores, produced in the United States and labeled as «raw» is also likely heated to subpasteurization temperatures.
Because of a regulatory loophole that passed European Parliament recently, the European Union still considers biomass fuels carbon - neutral, allowing them to count toward fulfillment of its Paris Agreement commitments.
Notwithstanding this endorsement, the Commission and the incumbent government failed to establish a separate code or an equivalent regulator to police political advertising: As a result, a regulatory loophole has been created, maintained and exploited in recent weeks to devastating effect.
At first, we thought it might be odd phrasing for an insurance company that does business nationally — as opposed to one of the really tiny unrated ones that do business in a handful of states and take advantage of regulatory loopholes to avoid disclosing their financials.
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