The phrase "a mandatory standard" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a requirement or guideline that must be followed in a specific context, such as regulations or industry practices.
Example: "All products must comply with a mandatory standard to ensure safety and quality."
Alternatives: "a required standard" or "an obligatory standard".
"This is a failure to comply with a mandatory standard and constitutes more than ordinary negligence," the violation notice said.
She testified that the staff had sought to make an existing voluntary standard into a mandatory standard, and that would make no difference.
Senator Kerry said it would matter because a mandatory standard could lead to civil penalties, could facilitate recalls and would bar importation of noncomplying beds.
To combat the risk of nightwear burns a mandatory standard regulating the design, flammability and labelling requirements of children's nightwear was introduced in Australia in 1987.
"If we find those standards are insufficient to protect the health and safety of consumers, then we can move to a mandatory standard," the commission chairman, Inez M. Tenenbaum, said Tuesday.
But thanks to consumers' growing enthusiasm for high-power, high-emissions cars, that seemed unlikely to happen, so this year the European Commission decided to impose a mandatory standard.
The Escrow Agreement does not necessarily violate any mandatory standard.
Enterprise standards are standards that are specific to the filer and that either articulate a higher standard than a mandatory government standard or create a standard in an area in which there is no corresponding governmental standard.
It includes incentives, opportunities and funding to improve energy efficiency in commercial buildings, houses and appliances, but does not impose any mandatory standards.
Senator John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, took her on over a 1994 vote against seeking a mandatory safety standard for bunk beds.
"Fact is: the patent in question is valid, and the Mannheim ruling of February 2009 covers all HTC 3G devices, since the patent covers a mandatory 3G standard, valid for all devices and networks".
