That is a big increase from the 2% international standard and the 4% U.S. practice.
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Somehow a U.S. legal decision of four decades back has become an international standard of behavior.
It also adopts international standard-setting instruments in the fields of competence of the Organization.
Others have banded together to try to stop operations that fail to meet the international standard.
The most straightforward way for governments to do that is to devise a uniform international standard.
The formula, which is used by Canada, the US and the Netherlands, is becoming the international standard.
An international standard on water reduction has been launched in an effort to encourage businesses to use water more sustainably.
All of this depends on the development of an international standard, and that will require extensive testing.
Yes, the international standard may look like FRS 17 - it may look a lot like FRS 17.
And from this year, new facilities are to meet the tougher international standard of 0.1 nanograms per cubic meter.
And the reason for that is the inability of different countries to settle on an international standard for reporting.
Perhaps there is now also a need for an international standard on how to use the precautionary principle in decision-making.
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By any available international standard, America's public schools deliver poor value for money: they cost a lot and their results overall are dismal.
The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) has met to issue a draft international standard of a new video-compression format that is twice as efficient as current standards.
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Syria's use of cluster munitions runs counter to the new international standard being created by the Convention on Cluster Munitions, rejecting any use of the weapons.
This is why there is no international standard on tax evasion or tax competition along the lines of international standards on bank regulation or fighting financial crime.
During our discussion, we also reached agreements that -- for development of democracy in Myanmar and for promoting of human rights to be in -- of international standard.
Some critics said the industry's move could throw a wrench in a separate year-long effort by the World Wide Web consortium to set an international standard for do-not-track.
They can type in the name of the book or the International Standard Book Number or if using an iPhone, search using just a picture of the ISBN number.
How can we set an international standard and apply it to a nation that has neither the circumstances of growth, nor the track record to follow such an austere path.
Our goal is to make the common market for European goods and services more accessible to businesses and consumers, boost our economy and set an international standard for online privacy.
Once the countries were selected, the next step was to compare their classifications of occupations with the International Standard of Occupations (ISCO-08), which was used as a base for this research.
Local companies can benefit from the experience by learning how to manage property at an international standard-something else that the government is trying to encourage the industry to do, rather than just speculate.
But we don't know that yet and there seems little point in the UK adopting a standard for a very few years which we then have to amend when the international standard is introduced.
It is in this context that, during this fourth session, states parties to the Convention will be invited to revise again, the "Prohibited List - International Standard" (Annex I of the Convention), thereby ensuring that governments and the sporting movement apply the same list of prohibited substances and methods in 2014.
But there is no doubt that the summit's action plan includes a long list of financial sector dimensions to be addressed, including: accounting standards, hedge funds, risk disclosures, financial sector assessments, credit rating agencies, risk-management and stress-testing models, international standard setters, sanctions for misconduct, reporting to supervisors in different countries, and more.
The "Prohibited List - International Standard" (Annex I of the Convention), thereby ensuring that governments and the sporting movement apply the same list of prohibited substances and methods in 2014, will be publicly released by the WADA on 1st October 2013 and follow the process of consultation of States Parties under the provisions of the Convention.
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The goal of developing a single international accounting standard is not entirely new--in fact, it dates back to 1973, when the International Accounting Standards Committee (now the International Accounting Standards Board) developed a set of standards to be used worldwide.
Actually, I agree that some form of an international gold standard is a good idea.
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