Since neither of these applied when she tried to certify the results on November 14th, the court set that certification aside and imposed a new deadline for late returns: Sunday, November 26th.

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"One example is the Forest Stewardship Council which is now a global timber certification scheme which in the last 10 years has managed to certify as well manage an area of more than 25 million hectares of forest, " he said.

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Two months later, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, which is responsible for EHR certification, issued a different set of rules, stating that hospitals have to certify their EHRs on 24 measures to meet requirements.

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