Short answer
Regulatory monitoring should have a clearly accountable owner, often regulatory affairs, product stewardship, compliance, or product safety. Individual topics may need specialist owners across legal, sustainability, HSE, quality, R&D, procurement, or commercial teams. The important point is that every material signal has an owner and escalation path.
Separate Watch Ownership from Decision Ownership
The monitoring owner may run the watch, but the response may sit elsewhere. A labelling update, supplier questionnaire, customer disclosure, or legal interpretation can each need a different accountable team.
Good workflow keeps those hand-offs visible.
Frequently asked questions
Can monitoring be centralised?
Yes, but centralised monitoring still needs distributed review by people who understand products, markets, and obligations.
What is the risk of unclear ownership?
Signals may be read but not acted on, or the same update may be reviewed repeatedly by different teams without a shared decision record.
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