The Pittsburgh Summit does that sound strange to anyone else? London, Washington, Beijing, Berlin … Pittsburgh?–concluded with a ringing call for harmonization on bankers' pay, capital requirements, tax cheating and much more.
As seen in the results, discrepancies between Member States are especially critical for EU-wide regulatory approaches, which call for harmonization of national regulatory requirements and practices.
Brown did act with dispatch and focus, and he was a voice calling for harmonization of policies around the globe, culminating in the London G-20 meeting in 2009, perhaps his finest moment.
The Insulin Standardization Workgroup called for harmonization of the insulin assay to encourage the development of measures of insulin sensitivity and secretion that will be practical for clinical care (374).
Recently, an insulin standardization workgroup of the ADA, in conjunction with the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, the CDC, and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, called for harmonization of insulin assay results through traceability to an isotope-dilution liquid chromatography tandom mass spectrometry reference (373).
That bill calls for a "harmonization" of the California and federal regulatory programs to provide a nationwide standard.
The act called for the harmonization of social and fiscal measures taken within the EEC and was a forerunner of the 1991 Maastricht Treaty (Treaty on European Union), which paved the way for the establishment of economic and monetary union and was approved by a large majority of Irish voters in a referendum.
The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, endorsed in 2005, is an international agreement with 130 signatories (including more than 100 countries and organizations), which calls for increased harmonization, alignment and management of aid and sets out indicators by which results can be monitored [ 5].
The official mileage test, called the New European Driving Cycle, was set up 30 years ago and is administered by a UN subsidiary body called the World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations (WFHVR).
These failures and variations in practice call for clear guidance and harmonization of approaches in order to improve communications and to provide safer patient care.
