And despite all the harmonization efforts from international organizations, national agencies remain free to collect and aggregate data as they prefer.
"That is the thing with this EU negotiation is that we're starting from a position of harmonization, rather than from a position of difference.
For instance, we are still very far from harmonization in judiciary systems or taxation rules, or from a common foreign policy.
Understanding the theory of spatial data harmonization – harmonization experts from three running European projects (OTN, SDI4Apps, Foodie), with experiences from INSPIRE thematic working groups, and earlier project such as Plan4bussines, Plan4 all and Humboldt were involved.
From the early 1990s onwards, international regulatory harmonization for new drug development has been pursued under the efforts of ICH.
The EORTC and PERCIST classifications would benefit from harmonization strategies such as the EARL accreditation program in multicentre studies or in sites equipped with multiple PET systems.
As the degree of regulatory cooperation advances from sharing of submitted data to work sharing/mutual reliance on other authorities' work, and to decision sharing/mutual reliance on other authorities' decision, the necessary level of harmonization also advances from that of technical requirements to regulatory practice and to decision criteria.
In this approach, termed "codon harmonization", synonymous codons from E. coli were selected that match as closely as possible the codon usage frequency used in the native gene, unless empirical structure calculations show that the codons are associated with putative link/end segments and therefore should be translated slowly.
Several common denominators exist across state advisories that would gain from harmonization and coordination in particular.
They described how integration can be enhanced from harmonization to interdisciplinary integrated level by avoiding commonly committed mistakes [ 14].
