40 However, international support is often criticised as inefficient or insufficiently effective 49 and recent proliferation of global institutions and harmonisation initiatives can be difficult to translate into national-level HSS improvements.
9 After two more meetings on this matter the EC will report (before January 20 , 2012 whether harmonisation of product notification can be reached, and how.
Similarly, for spatial data harmonisation there exist several tools and services which can be reused for the above purpose, e.g., the HUMBOLDT project [37] provides various INSPIRE and OGC compliant state-of-the-art harmonisation tools and services.
"This is an issue of keeping Australians safe and we all want to ensure that and the best way to do so is to make sure that there are no loopholes that can be exploited by people who would do us harm and a harmonisation of security laws is very important".
The International Conference for Harmonisation Good Clinical Practice (ICH GCP) guidelines make allowance for a waiver of consent provided that consent can be provided by the subject's "legally accepted representative" [ 20].
Efficiency gains can be made through adoption of promising strategies such as sector wide approaches to improve harmonisation and coordination of efforts in countries.
This data was presented to two meetings of lead health advisors from EU member states and can be used by donors and others to begin to identify possible overlap and areas for improved harmonisation.
For example, systematic identifiers can be generated with different structure-to-identifier conversion tools, with different levels of structure standardisation, or structures and systematic identifiers can be integrated without harmonisation from different sources.
'The emphasis on public health protection in the directive can be explained by the fact that it constituted the main objective of the national measures being harmonised, but, in the context of harmonisation, it became a secondary objective' (para 56).
Harmonisation can take place at several stages in surveys development and analysis: at design stage (harmonising measurements -inputs- or statistical outputs) or after data has been collected ('ex-post')[ 10].
