Directive 2006/87/EC of the European Parliament and the Council represents a milestone in the on-going process of harmonization of technical standards for inland vessels in Europe.
IFOAM is working toward harmonization among different countries' standards for organic certification in the face of a growing global market.
Using a harmonization strategy (hereby aligning quantitative values to the EARL/EANM harmonizing standards with a proprietary filter, the EQ.PET methodology) either for the pre- or post-treatment scans gave almost perfect agreement levels in comparison with the OSEMPET1/OSEMPET2 reference standard, with narrow confidence intervals.
In particular, ADCWAN is a new approach to promote the harmonization of standards existing for ADCs, it establishes a collaborative work environment supporting the scientific research community to improve the harmonization level, allowing the scientific training of young researchers, the dissemination and the comparison of metrological information.
A set of standards for a first implementation will be finished soon, and harmonization among continents is taking place.
Based on our experience building LAGOS, two of the largest challenges are the extreme heterogeneity of data sources and the lack of standards for ecological data, both of which create problems for automation of data harmonization and integration.
Nevertheless, without the harmonization of the conceptual framework and validation of identifying criteria, the value of the case definition standards for IEI-EMF will remain insufficient and possibly unreliable.
International biological reference standards are the highest order standards for the calibration of measurement procedures and play a critical role in the standardization, harmonization, and quality control of diagnostic procedures (21).
Contribution to UN harmonization – Senior managers and other agencies recognize the EO's leadership within the United Nations Evaluation Group UNEGG) to create professional Norms and Standards for implementation of evaluation across the UN system.
Samadian et al. (University of British Columbia, Canada) utilized existing ontologies and standards for scientific data representation to build a Semantic Web Service-based approach to automatic measurement-unit harmonization [ 13].
