In 1990, Council Directive 90/220 had already established, on the basis of Article 100a of the EC Treaty, a system of prior notification of the use of products containing GMMOs to the competent authorities of the Member States, and of authorization by those authorities or, in certain circumstances, by the Commission".
The Senate majority leader, Bill Frist, Republican of Tennessee, said the Senate bill strengthened the review process by "explicitly establishing a system of Congressional notification that had previously been lacking".
Mr. Zhu sought to calm those concerns on his visit, saying that his country's ships had no hostile intent and agreeing to set up a "hot line" between the two governments and a system of prior notification of ship movements into sensitive areas.
The site is supported by a system of notification alerts, and the average question on Piazza will receive an answer in 14 minutes.
9 A system of 'prior notification' operates in locations where testing goes on, involving the display of leaflets or posters explaining that blood may be tested anonymously.
Assessing ways to set-up a system of mandatory notification is also recommended.
In Britain the National Health Service Central Registers (NHSCRs) provide the facility for a study population to be 'flagged', initiating a system of notification to investigators of deaths and cancers that occur in the population.
Apple's Health Kit has received backing from the Mayo Clinic, a Minnesota-based medical research group that has tested a system of direct notifications whereby clinics could inform patients of unusual patterns in the data they've received.
After epidemics of HFMD in Sarawak, East Malaysia, and the Malaysian Peninsula in 1997 (6 – 8 ) and Taiwan in 1998 99, 10 ), which were associated with complications of encephalitis, myocarditis, and death, a system of surveillance for the disease, based on notifications from child-care centers, was implemented in Singapore in April 1998.
A system for notification of HCV-infected individuals to the Ministry of Health has been in place since 2003, but notifications are mostly from opportunistic screening as described above, and thus cannot serve as an indicator of incidence.
The passive surveillance refers to the hospital-based reporting system for the notification of either imported or domestic dengue cases.
