Whereas a majority of continental companies with huge pension schemes already use international financial-reporting standards or similar American ones, lots of big British companies are in the process of switching standards.
The process of setting standards and WTO policy is more tortoise than hare, according to Lamy.
Members of the California lab that I know have repeatedly told me that the standards adopted by their state are almost meaningless and at one point they refused to take part in the standards process because it was a sell-out to the gun lobby and failed to protect against improper access to guns.
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"The working group drew on standards developed through the Safe and Sustainable process, but amended the standards to reflect the specific needs of the Northern Ireland population, " they said.
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOx) governs the auditing process and the process for developing the standards for performing it.
"As the process matures, the standards get tougher because you're working toward a bona fide business case, " says Manganello.
Seven financial titans, including UBS Warburg, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch, formed a group in August to speed up the process of hammering out standards.
The establishment of the new watchdog has been seen as an opportunity to streamline the inspection process while driving up standards in both the NHS and private sectors.
Mr Thompson said this was the "start of a process" and the Standards Committee would come back to the chamber to discuss the issue of committees in the future.
In New York State, for example, the Public Service Commission has created an elaborate process and set of standards for scrutinizing any metering devices before approving those meters for use in billing customers.
But back when Netscape was the only Internet browser, Economides said, it basically controlled the process for setting technical standards for communication on the Internet because it could roll them out into the market if anyone disagreed.
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In the process, they violated industry standards and government regulations with respect to transparency, disclosure, due diligence, good governance and accountability.
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Kelley said TruePosition failed to present facts suggesting the competitors agreed in advance to shut it out of the standards-setting process, instead of merely doing so for their own independent reasons.
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Additional fury arose over the fact that the pardon process itself grossly departed from standards and procedures that had been in place at the Justice Department for more than 150 years.
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, which publishes the actual rules that Wi-Fi devices reference, said its standards-writing process is running ahead of schedule and should publish the new standard before year's end.
We've had to evaluate each of those cases, hundreds of cases, one by one, to determine what these various categories are, and do it in a way that stands up to our standards of due process and legal scrutiny.
Some workplace and outsourcing experts said that Wal-Mart's unilateral action only adds to an increasingly complicated process of trying to improve safety standards in Bangladesh.
The IEEE Standards Association, a globally recognized standards-setting body within IEEE, develops consensus standards through an open process that engages industry and brings together a broad stakeholder community.
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"Malaga Club de Futbol has begun an internal restructuring process to adapt to financial fair play standards, with the intention of guaranteeing self-sufficiency and sustainability, " Malaga said in an online statement.
But the SEC also admits to another reason for convergence of U.S. and international standards: nearly 100 other countries, including those within the European Union, are either currently using international standards or are in the process of converging with them.
The largest is the creation of a standard to allow files to travel between networks, a process that often takes the Internet's standards body, known as the Internet Engineering Task Force, more than two years.
And the new rules have an escape hatch: If the industry has problems meeting the new standards, there's a review process that could reduce the target.
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Sir Bernard said without an increase in standards people would regard police training as a process akin to a "sheep dip".
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We have yet to complete the reforms needed to raise capital standards, improve liquidity, reform the securitisation process and regulate the OTC derivatives market.
While the study suggests that confidence in the standards will improve with familiarity, as investors and analysts educate themselves the debate will move to the standard-setting process as well as the governance of the International Accounting Standards Board.
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So if I make a claim that I'm reducing greenhouse gases because I've changed mileage standards on cars, there will be a process whereby people will be able to take a look and say, is that in fact in effect?
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According to the Hay Group that specializes in compensation issues, corporate boards must assure that pay standards are fair and transparent, and that the process to assign compensation does not conflict with general employee benefit policies.
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He believes that every child has a basic human right to decent education, but also that the education process itself should be as inclusive as possible to ensure high standards are achieved regardless of gender, nationality or social background.
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