Recent experience suggests that regulatory harmonization can increase, rather than decrease, systemic risk, an effect that is the precise opposite of the objective of harmonization.
Unlike assimilation, where an individual stands to lose his identity by absorption into the mainstream culture, integration involves a mutual recognition and respect of the other -- a harmonization that includes difference rather than denies it.
After a storm of protest in London, Mr. Lafontaine retreated a little, calling for the "coordination" of taxes rather than their "harmonization". Many in Britain see the latter term as a faint disguise for the imposition of uncompetitive tax levels by the European Union.
Rather than attempting full-scale harmonization, the Harmonization Directive limits itself to the national provisions that are most likely to affect the functioning of the internal market.
However, not only the exemption from auctioning is unlikely to mitigate Carbon Leakage, instead of improving the allocation transparency and granting harmonization of higher rules but also the new ETS allocation rule is likely to increase the distortions of competition, worsening rather than improving the harmonization within the ETS.
In any case, I believe we would benefit from greater harmonization of the rules of international private law rather than substantive law.
Rather than demanding complete uniformity among biobanks, harmonization is a more flexible approach aimed at ensuring the effective interchange of valid information and samples.
More focused multivariate region of interest analysis, larger control banks (perhaps based on disease mimics rather than healthy individuals), with standardization and harmonization of sequence acquisition and analysis, are all future steps on a roadmap to clinical translation.
This is where the "harmonization of world wide practices" directly related to neutrality can truly be helpful at operational levels, rather than purely through esoteric and theoretical constructs like implicit bias.
Based on the notion that the thermal market is regional rather than state bound, that viable business models can add value, that standardization and harmonization will drive volume and that financing models are central to leverage private capital, a network of stakeholders across states has been established.
