Advice on Managing Global Changes in a Regulated Environment

Coming from a heavily regulated industry ,   i am wondering if anyone has come across issues where global changes which drive an increase to process issue iterations  (mainly changes to process elements as opposed to content  ,  for example  editing of a role name ,  editing of process summary, editing of performance targets etc)   impact on processes in terms of requiring pre-notification of change to regulatory bodies,   interested to see how others from similar industry’s are managing these situations as finding we are having to apply workarounds to manage the impact of global changes on these type of processes so as to remain in line with requirements.