Good governance

Some specific needs refer to fields of particular importance, e.g. food quality including all relevant issues consumer goods governed by the New Approach Directives and relevant harmonised European standards the protection of the enviromnent and the quality of life as well as the economic concerns of the consumers dangerous substances and preparations and their impact on human beings, animals and the environment forensic science. 

Since the characteristics of vaccines can be well specihed, quality can be (and is) monitored, and the potential for quality improvement is high, their model implies that private enterprise is likely to be more efficient in the vaccine industry too. Indeed, in a later paper, Shleifer (1998) concluded that private ownership should generally be preferred to public ownership when the incentives to innovate and to contain costs must be strong— A good government that wants to further social goals would rarely own producers to meet its objectives. ... 

In fhe case of chemical exposures thaf are privafe goods, govern-menf should provide information rather than regulation. And the negligence liability rule, rather than strict liability, should be applied. 

In the case of chemical exposures that are private goods, government (to the extent that it does anything at all) should limit its activities to the provision of information so individuals can decide for themselves which risks to bear. Command-and-control regulations inhibit the development of robust private information markets because people think that if a product is for sale, the government must have checked it out to ensure that its benefits were greater than its harms. 

By 1999, 108 countries had developed an NDP while 69 had yet to draft an implementation plan (WHO 2004a). Each country should take careful steps to plan and prioritize its implementation in correspondence with national priorities (WHO 2001). Prioritization is often based on balancing the severity of the problem, the likelihood in achieving the objective, and the potential impact possible with existing resources (WHO 2001). In the context of good governance, Cohen, Cercone, and Macaya (2002) suggest that resources should be funneled to the weakest link in the pharmaceutical system, to decrease the likelihood of poor investments. 

Without good government, establishment of policies directed at promoting food production (rather than just commodity production), appropriate intellectual property policies that assure agricultural technology is publicly available, and fair international trade policies, a discovery that may help farmers and consumers around the world is useless. GE may help Burkina Faso, but only within the framework of a viable public sector that promotes the public good. 

Risk communication accompanies all four phases. Each phase specifies activities that constitute important elements for good governance. This simple concept is in line with almost all other competing concepts and ensures the compatibility with professional codices and risk governance legislation. Moreover, it has transformed the linear structure more commonly found in other contemporary conceptions of risk governance into an open, cyclical, iterative and interlinked process, as shown in Fig. 2.1. 

UNHCR (2007). Good Governance practices for the protection of human rights, UNHCR, Geneva. 

Lockyer, C. An Account of the Trade in India, Containing Rules for Good Government in Trade... Vtvax.-ed for the author and sold by Samuel Crouch London, 1711. 

Prerequisites for a pro-poor policy in a globalizing world are peace, democracy and good governance. Good governance comprises stimulation of the development process by national governments, banishing corruption. 

Thus, co-regulation with its soft law approach to advancing industrial safety rests on a fragile foundation of trust. The question that remains is whether more is needed to ensure that it will meet the inseparable needs of modern democracies for good governance and robust protection from industrial risks to public and workplace safety.5°... 

Fora discussion ofsoftlawand good governance issues, see European Parliament, Directorate-General for Internal Policies, Checks and Balances of Soft EU Rule-Making (2012). 

This can only be reversed by good governance stress on moral and ethical values and spirit of sacrifice. 

The requirement of good governance in particular appears to be a rather open criterion. In such circumstances, the question of assessment of the achievement of the agreed standards therefore becomes a crucial issue. 

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