For example, the General Data Protection Regulation has brought about harmonization of data protection norms across Europe.
As part of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and parallel accords, the Mexican legislature passed the Law of Norms and Harmonization ("Ley de Metrologia y Normalizacion"), which follows and monitors compliance of Canada, US and Mexico obligations.
Combating poverty and exclusion In recent years, the government and civil society in Morocco have taken several other measures to combat child labour, including the harmonization of national legislation with international norms and standards.
Indonesia would thus benefit from any changes that lead to improved transparency and greater harmonization of standards based on internationally agreed norms.
This major dilution of existing Bank safeguards derogates from well-established international standards and would effectively dismantle 30 years of hard fought-for policy evolution, setting a dangerous precedent among national, regional and global actors and undermining momentum for the upward harmonization of international standards and alignment with human rights norms.
With respect to trade, the focus is on harmonized policies and measures for trade facilitation by reducing sanitary and phytosanitary barriers, technical obstacles, promoting the reduction and harmonization of tariffs and adopting the international Codex Alimentarius norms and standards.
To this end, we propose a federated 'Safe Harbor Framework for International Ethics Equivalency' (Safe Harbor) that facilitates the harmonization of ethics review of data-driven international genomics research projects while respecting globally transposable research ethics norms and principles.
In this session, Professors Gasser and Burkert presented an overview of the problem of reconciling a global Internet with local norms and values, suggesting that governance of the Internet has progressed in three phases: the inter-local, the harmonization of the inter-local in an attempt to ease the tension between local laws and the global medium and, finally, the quest for global order.
