By 2002, the Commission intended to harmonize excise duties on diesel fuel for private cars.
This paper presents the World-wide harmonized Light duty Test Cycle (WLTC), developed under the Working Party on Pollution and Energy (GRPE) and sponsored by the European Union (with Switzerland and Japann.
The momentum of long-standing preferential conduct by the state will not easily be turned around as the recent European Commission's proposal to harmonize fuel excise duties has revealed, yet not only private customers' inertia is at stake.
The duty imposed under subsection (a) shall not apply to the cost of equipments, or any part thereof, purchased, of repair parts or materials used, or of repairs made in a foreign country with respect to a United States civil aircraft, within the meaning of general note 3(c)(iv) of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States.
Its duties would include harmonizing members' policies on taxation and social welfare and coordinating the fight against tax fraud.
A manager's sense of self-worth is enhanced by perpetuating and strengthening existing institutions: he or she is performing in a role that harmonizes with ideals of duty and responsibility.
This project will engage asset owners, asset managers and policy makers across national and international jurisdictions "to harmonize a global understanding of fiduciary duty which incorporates sustainability" as its remit.
The coordinator's duties, somewhat controversial from the start, include harmonizing the enforcement activities of several federal agencies under the White House's Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property Enforcement.
In terms of its substantive work, the UNWCC was divided into three committees: the first helped nations evaluate the import of evidence; the second assisted in apprehending suspects and punishing the convicted, amongst other duties; and the third provided advisory legal opinions to national jurisdictions as a way to harmonize the development of international criminal law.
Unlike Nafta, which eventually eliminated duties on goods sold between Mexico, the United States and Canada, a European free-trade agreement would focus more on harmonizing regulatory standards between the United States and Europe.
