Any other ideas?

miamibremen - OK just some thoughts - overabundance of regulatory mechanisms, laws, factors, just plain "regulations", densely entwined regulatory...you can't take a step without bumping into another regulation :-)

Thanks Carly, I used regulations, much better than control!

How about "degree of regulation"? Here "high degree of regulation".

dense system of regulations

http://www.net4you.com/jandlftp/roadto1.htm

oder ist das nur zu wörtlich übersetzt?

Alas - my current translation

According to Wolf-Dieter Stucken, short-term political interests that favour lower gas prices, as well as the increasing web of regulations, könnten kurzfristige politische Interessen zugunsten niedriger Gaspreise sowie die zunehmende Regulierungsdichte langfristig zu einer Verknappung der Erdgasversorgung führen.

Stucken is Managing Director der Wintershall Erdgas Handelshaus Zug AG