La posicion tradicional de la doctrina colombiana ha sido la de asimilar la regulacion a una modalidad nueva de actuacion del Estado, pero sin que medie una definicion del termino. Mediante un examen de la evolucion de la intervencion del Estado en la economia se busca definir esta nocion para luego tratar de identificar los diferentes instrumentos regulatorios del ordenamiento juridico colombiano, en concreto, de aquellas atribuciones que fueron conferidas por la Ley 1341 de 2009 a la Comision de Regulacion de Comunicaciones.The traditional position of Colombian administrative law doctrine has been to assimilate the regulatory activity to a new state form of administrative action, without defining its content. By looking at the evolution of government intervention in the economy, it is intended to define the notion of regulation, to then try to identify the different regulatory instruments that exist in the Colombian legal system, mainly those attributions that were conferred by act 1341 of 2009 to the Communications regulation commission.