  We show that a bound of the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity of any power of
the ideal sheaf of a smooth projective complex variety $X\subseteq\mathbb{P}^r$
is sharp exactly for complete intersections, provided the variety $X$ is cut
out scheme-theoretically by several hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{P}^r$. This
generalizes a result of Bertram-Ein-Lazarsfeld.
