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NEW YORK, Nov. 1, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) is pleased to announce that ISO 26000, Guidance on social responsibility, is now available on the ANSI webstore. This highly anticipated standard from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) integrates international expertise on social responsibility (SR), detailing what it means, what issues organizations need to address to operate in a socially responsible manner, and what the best practices are for implementing SR effectively and efficiently.
ISO 26000 is designed to assist public and private organizations in contributing to a more sustainable global economy by establishing common guidance on social responsibility concepts, definitions, and methods of evaluation. It is ...
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) published an interim final rule on March 9, 2011, amending its test procedures for microwave ovens under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) to provide for the measurement of standby mode and off mode power use by microwave ovens. Those amendments incorporated into the DOE test procedure provisions from the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Standard 62301, ``Household electrical appliances--Measurement of standby power,'' First Edition 2005-06 (IEC Standard 62301 (First Edition)). In addition, those amendments adopted in the DOE test procedure definitions of modes based on the relevant provisions from the IEC Standard 62301 Second Edition, Final Draft International Standard (IEC Standard 62301 (FDIS)), as well as language to cl...
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The International Space Station Multilateral Coordination Board (MCB) has approved a docking system standard. The international standard will provide guidelines for a common interface to link future spacecraft ranging from crewed to autonomous vehicles and from low-Earth orbit to deep- space exploration missions. The interface definition document is available at:
http://www.internationaldockingstandard.com
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In October and December 2009 the governments of the Cook Islands and Samoa each entered into a Tax Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA) with the Aust...
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August 7, 2009
On August 7, 2009, Tax Executives Institute submitted the following comments to the International Accounting Standards Board on an Ex...
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ABSTRACT
This Note explores recommendations for developing a global antitrust regime and ultimately rejects those suggestions in favor of more tradi...
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ATLANTA -- The International Voice Association (IVA) today announced that the Digital Speech Standard audio format, an international digital voice rec...
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Introduction
Publishing is indispensable in the knowledge industry. Publishers are mediators, who transmit, maintain, and support data. Publishing i...