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Some global minimum standards are desirable and necessary.

"Its minimum standards are generally accepted throughout the world as customary international law," the panel said.

But once minimum standards are in place it is very difficult to remove them.

"There are cases where certain minimum standards are not being met, in regard to independence, conflicts of interest and term limits.

Higher animal welfare standards would be one important protection, as currently minimum standards are set under the EU, though the UK government has frequently imposed more stringent rules on British farmers, under public pressure.

A spokesman for U.S. Central Command acknowledged that it "does not play a formal role in the monitoring of living conditions on U.S. bases," although each base has a military chain of command responsible for "working with the entities involved to insure minimum standards are met".

Besides, adopting global minimum standards is already a big challenge.

The committee wrote: "The struggle to improve the profession and go beyond minimum standards is a universal goal".

Disincentives against the construction of studios and small one-bedroom apartments were introduced, and minimum standards were also set for individual rooms.

Because most big companies already offer plans that would meet the minimum standards being set, their workers would probably be unaffected by the new rules in any case.

Now some economic advisers to the German government are going further, suggesting that rating agencies should be nationalized, that large-scale loans be registered publicly and that minimum standards be developed for complex debt securities.