The law enforcement standards commission develops certification standards for police officers, jailers, 9-1-1 disecuritys and security officers.
He suggests that perhaps a national committee could be appointed to develop certification standards for all service animals as well as a formal process for preventing and punishing service-animal fraud.
To make sure that practitioners who treated genetic disorders were qualified to do so, Dr. Rimoin led a team of experts in developing certification tests and got medical genetics recognized as a full medical specialty in the 1990s.
The Open Identity Exchange, a group of companies including AT&T, Google, Paypal, Symantec and Verizon, is helping to develop certification standards for online identity authentication; it believes that industry can address privacy issues through self-regulation.
None of this guidance is standardized, validated, or accredited by outside professional groups, although efforts are underway to develop certification programs for robot-assisted surgery.
A European task force group on IGT might be necessary to further develop certification guidelines and establish requirements for IGT practice according to known standards, focused on common recommendations and certification guidelines.
The features list produced in this study could be used by policymakers and professional bodies to develop certification criteria or standards for prescribing software systems, and as guidance for software vendors.
Finally, in order to provide certain standards for maritime security companies, the German government is looking into developing certifications to ensure that certain safety standards are met.
"A lot of palm oil plantations developed without certification," says Ewers. "It is not clear if they can retrospectively gain certification by doing habitat restoration, but some are now actively trying to take a step back and restore some parts of the historic biodiversity".
