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# Impact radius for regulatory events

# Impact radius for regulatory alerts of type regulatory event {#ariaid-title1}

Release version: Australia  
Updated March 12, 2026  
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Impact radius typically refers to the extent to which a regulatory change affects an organization. Adding impacted areas to a regulatory alert of type regulatory event helps to calculate the impact radius of a regulatory
alert.

## Impacted areas {#impact-calculation-approval__section_xd1_bbq_cfc}

Assess regulatory events that affect the compliance or risk posture of your organization. The impact radius measures how a regulatory event affects GRC objects and determines the action tasks to generate. The Regulatory Change Management application supports impact radius calculation for regulatory alerts and automatically creates action tasks based on the results.  
Regulatory alerts are of two types:

* Regulatory event
* Source document
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Prior to the Yokohama release, the Regulatory Change Management users had the option to add only one or more number of citations impacted due to any regulatory change. This led to sole reliance on only citations and omitted taking other business operations such as policies, control objectives, controls, risks, third-parties, and so on, into consideration. To address this problem, a new table called impacted area (sn_grc_reg_change_impacted_area) is created and it captures the following items including the previously captured citations:

* Citation
* Control objective
* Policy
* Authority document
* Control
* Acknowledgment campaign
* Policy category
* Policy exception
* Risk statement
* Risk framework
* Risk

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Note:  
Impacted areas can be added to regulatory alerts that are of type regulatory event. For more information, see [Add impacted areas manually to a regulatory alert](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/nBx2HZOfslXr6HiPDagczw "Add impacted areas such as citations, control objectives, policies, and more to your regulatory alerts. Adding impacted areas to a regulatory alert captures additional impacts that you identified and impacts that weren’t initially recommended.")

## Impact radius calculation {#impact-calculation-approval__section_p4j_1bq_cfc}

Add impacted areas to a regulatory alert of type regulatory event and assign it to a user. When the user marks the alert as applicable, regulatory tasks are generated and assigned automatically. When the assigned user responds
to the tasks, action tasks are generated for each impacted area. Manually add action tasks beyond those generated from the impacted areas.

## Representation of regulatory changes in the Compliance Workspace {#impact-calculation-approval__section_zxl_m3y_dfc}

The Compliance Workspace is updated to display the regulatory changes by impacted areas. The following figure displays the regulatory changes section under the Tracking widget.Figure 1. Regulatory changes on the Compliance workspace