"agreed-upon criteria" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it whenever you need to refer to criteria or standards that have been previously accepted or agreed to by two or more parties. For example, "The two parties agreed to abide by the previously agreed-upon criteria when negotiating the deal".
"She fulfilled all of the internationally agreed-upon criteria, and there wasn't anything that she did that would lead anybody to say she wasn't vegetative," he told me.
So far, all three main American presidential candidates have said they will continue the Bush administration's ban on discussions with Hamas until it meets previously agreed-upon criteria: recognition of the right of Israel to exist, acceptance of previous Palestinian-Israeli agreements and an end to violence.
While there are no agreed-upon criteria for inclusion, membership in this select group customarily requires conspicuous contributions at one or both of the foundings of the United States: during the American Revolution, when independence was won, or during the Constitutional Convention, when nationhood was achieved.
Time has come for initiatives to conduct well designed trials based on agreed-upon criteria to settle this debate.
That is because there are no universally agreed-upon criteria among Classical Indian philosophers (not even among fellow-Buddhists) as to what counts as evidence for the existence of external things.
Moreover, without clear, agreed-upon criteria, many academic leaders, looking at the hostile consequences of "boldness" among some of their brethren, see, quite accurately, that making significant changes in the face of limited faculty opposition often leads to larger-scale faculty opposition, and potentially to a loss of personal authority and legitimacy.
The final agreed upon criteria for consideration of signs and symptoms as major included: 1. participant endorsement of at least 15% or for those between 10 and 14%, discussed and included if considered important conceptually; 2.
Before this approach can be endorsed, we need evidence from well-designed prospective randomized trials using widely agreed upon criteria and including large numbers of patients at multiple centers.
In a similar manner, a country that chooses a path that leaves a large portion of original forest intact and reduces deforestation rates rapidly with adherence to agreed upon criteria based on equity, social and biodiversity concerns could accrue credits of higher value to sell on rapidly expanding national and international carbon markets.
In a 9-month survey of 788 reviews for 329 manuscripts, the team found no significant difference in the quality (as measured by widely agreed upon criteria judged to be essential for a good review) or timeliness of reviews between the two groups.
