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ISSUES

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

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BELGIUM - BRUXELLES - La Commission européenne a présenté lundi le "logo biologique", un signe de reconnaissance officiel qui...

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Project to create sustainable palm oil project undermined by Western firms

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - LAS VEGAS - Les fabricants d'électronique réunis cette semaine lors du plus grand salon mondial de leur secteur ne...

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DEBATES

Green Intelligence: Toward True Ecological Transparency

Daniel Goleman

Two months ago, Wal-Mart made an announcement that could set off an ecological earthquake: The giant retailer disclosed it was...

Environmental Logos: watch for scams!

Public or private, recyclable or recycled products, for...

Ecolabeling: Voting with Our Wallets

Labeling products that are produced with environmentally...

FOCUS

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...

VIDEOS

06/03/2009

Le cadre juridique américain sur les labels écologiques reste encore très...

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...

INDICATORS

Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI)

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