enforcement actions
Official compliance measures
Enforcement actions are steps taken by authorities to compel compliance with laws, regulations, or rules.
The term appears most often in regulatory contexts—the SEC taking enforcement actions against insider trading, the EPA against polluters, banks against delinquent borrowers.
The plural suggests a category of official responses: The agency increased enforcement actions after the scandal.
- penaltiesPunishments for infractions
- civil penaltiesNon-criminal legal sanctions
- finesMonetary sanctions or particles
- investigationsSystematic searches for truth
- arrestsLawful detentions by police
monetary fine · criminal charges · injunctions · court order · sanctions · asset freeze · crackdown · statutes · debarment · legal settlements · judicial review · regulatory agencies · judicial rulings · regulations · police departments · cease and desist · stop order · consent decree
enforcement actionsself-regulation
Managing one's own behavior
self-policing · self-correction · negotiated settlement · self-reporting · consent decrees
enforcement actionsapprovals
Formal consent given
permits · authorizations · licenses · exemptions · waivers
enforcement actionslooking the other way
Deliberately ignoring wrongdoing
benign neglect · turning a blind eye · deregulation · non-intervention · tolerance