35 As a second stage of the project, LHH and ELSA data will be harmonised to test hypotheses on how variation in the cross-national social, economic and policy contexts may have influenced exposures and outcomes earlier in life.
CEN/TC 351/WG 1 'Release from construction products into soil, ground water and surface water' was mandated to develop harmonised laboratory leaching tests and to test the applicability of these methods for a series of different construction products within a robustness study as a part of the validation process [2].
The DEMO/COPHES Consortium that established and tested harmonised human biomonitoring on a European scale (http://www.eu-hbm.info) also included Jürgen Angerer, Pierre Biot, Louis Bloemen, Ludwine Casteleyn, Milena Horvat, Anke Joas, Reinhard Joas, Greet Schoeters, and Karen Exley.
Six randomly selected parents of patients admitted with acute respiratory infections pilot tested the final harmonised version.
Anthrax Euronet, a Coordination Action of the EU 6th Framework Programme, was designed to strengthen networking activities between anthrax research groups in Europe and to harmonise protocols for testing anthrax vaccines and therapeutics.
Furthermore, minor variations in laboratory protocols may complicate the inter-laboratory comparison of MLVA results, therefore efforts to harmonise STM MLVA testing and to develop a unified nomenclature have received well-deserved attention [ 25, 17].
A similar leaching test procedure was already harmonised for treated wood for this purpose.
These methods should be harmonised to ensure comparable, high quality STI testing.
"The ability . . . to deliver broadly harmonised regulation and a truly common EU telecoms market will be tested this year as never before," Kroes told the paper.
They have either harmonised or made subject to mutual recognition 100,000 national standards, labelling laws, testing procedures and consumer-protection measures covering everything from toys to food to stockbroking to teaching.
