29 The 'triangulation' of survey and sales data on alcohol to harmonise the survey-based consumption distribution with sales-derived per capita consumption has been demonstrated.
One idea that Mr Monti is keen on, however, is to harmonise the accounting methods used to calculate taxable profits.
The future of the academic library lies with many, but ultimately depends on our ability to harmonise the seemingly contradictory and competing principles of technology, budgets, library space, services, copyright, and open access.
Less than a decade ago, there was talk of an impending ice age.Dennis KrenzCalgaryWhich option?SIR – The efforts of the International Accounting Standards Board to harmonise the rules on the expensing of stock options continues to divert attention from the real issue ("The good fight", November 9th): Why use options at all?
Yet there is no EU initiative to harmonise the rules on secured transactions, although change is proposed from time to time.Slovakia's example is unlikely to colonise Europe although Frédérique Dahan, a legal counsel at the EBRD, thinks it could be applied in Latin America.
Also on the table are proposals to harmonise the EU's money-laundering laws.
Chair of the UK environmental audit committee, Joan Walley, believes there is a danger of TTIP coming at "the expense of throwing away hard-won environmental and public-health protections" and that combining US and EU regulatory systems becomes a "race to the bottom" – agreeing to harmonise the lowest regulations on either side, not the highest.
To address the issue of multiple names for the same RII, a new nomenclature system is proposed to harmonise the names based on common mathematical formula and a first-named basis.
What could be done to harmonise the controls?
29 Challenges include acquiring and harmonising the data.
