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Quality Guarantees Flooding the World

Broadly speaking, standards represent all the compulsory rules (rules of law) ordered according to a "standard hierarchy" by order of importance. This summary is about standards in the strictest sense of the word, that is to say technical rules relating to the characteristics of a product or service and the way in which it is made and commercialised. They have progressively become the voluntary tools for organising markets, competition and the circulation of technical know-how.
Each country has its own national system of standardization. The central standardization organisation or the one which is the most representative of each country takes part in regional organisations such as the European Committee for Standardization, or international organisations like the International Organization for Standardization, the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) or the International Telecommunication Union amongst...  

NEWS

30/01/2012

Midwest utility to shut coal-burning power plants

21/12/2011

Car makers risk 10 bn euro fine for EU carbon breach

17/11/2011

Commission wants to drive down vehicle noise levels


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Green Intelligence: Toward True Ecological Transparency

Daniel Goleman

Wal-Mart’s push to develop a sustainability index for the products it carries could prove to be a pivotal moment in the effort to...  

  Environmental Logos: watch for scams!

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  Ecolabeling: Voting with Our Wallets

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Consuming responsibly

The Drax power station is in the United Kingdom. It is the country’s most polluting power station and emits almost 22 million tons of CO2 a year. This is 2 million and a half times more than an ordinary British...  

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30/08/2010
The Story of Cosmetics, released on July 21st, 2010, examines the...

GREEN TIPS

Some duck in the rice

Takao Furono , a pioneer in Japanese organic rice since 1989 does not use any chemical fertilizer on his...



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