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A consultant s report was completed and published in July. Further, a separate group under WIPO and affiliated with the International union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV), is studying plant breeders rights protection expecially for genetically engineered plants. 

Harmonization of Technical Requirements for Registration of Pharmaceuticals for Human Use, 18 702 International Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, 25 263, 267 International copyrights, 7 794—795 International Council of Scientific Unions Committee on Data (CODATA),... 

Table 3 - International Union of Forestry Research Organizations, Subject Group Air Pollution Maximal concentrations of air pollutants for the protection of forests (in pg/m air). ...

As a result of the national scope of many intellectual property laws, problems sometimes develop where inventions, such as biopharmaceuticals, are traded internationally. International trade can bring divergent national legislation into conflict. Countries that are net exporters of innovations protected by IPRs, such as the United States, the European Union, and Japan, advocate strongly in the international arena for the strengthening of national intellectual property laws and international harmonization of these laws [46]. Although international harmonization... 

These terms are derived from various sources, principally from the List of Definitions of Essential Telecommunications Terms (Part I, Corrosion), International Telecommunications Union, Geneva, 1957, 1st Supplement, I960, and the B.S.I. Code of Practice for Cathodic Protection, CP102I 1973 terms taken from the Code of Practice are marked with an asterisk. 

Recently the protection of the environment has become increasingly important for industry with the requirement that the potential impact on the environment is considered for all aspects of industrial processes. Such considerations are supported by environmental legislation that controls all types of emissions as well as the treatment of wastes. Such legislation is based on global standards that have largely resulted from developments within the European Union, Japan, and the United States in collaboration with international conventions. Of these, the Basel Convention (1989) and the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro (1992) were significant in the control and prevention of wastes. In the case of liquid wastes that are most appropriate for treatment by liquid liquid extraction, limits for discharge into the aqueous environment have been established by the three countries already mentioned. These limits depend on the particular country and sometimes on the industry. (See section 14.6.)... 

The REACH system was initiated to improve the protection of human health and the environment from the risk that can be posed by chemicals, to enhance the competitiveness of the EU chemicals industry (a key sector for European economy), to promote alternative methods for the assessment of hazards of substances, and to ensure the free circulation of substances on the international market of the European Union. The regulation was formally enforced on 1 June 2007. However, according to the REACH schedule, the registration procedures started from 1 June 2008 [1, 2]. 

In spite of these differences in procedure and data utilization, the basic goals of dietary risk assessment are the same in the US and the EU - to protect the populace from unsafe pesticide levels in food, while permitting agriculturists to successfully protect their crops from harmful pests. It should be noted that this paper was written for the proceedings of the 10 Conference of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry in Basle, Switzerland. Consequently, the paper was intended to provide a brief overview of the topic. A comprehensive review was recently published that provides much more detail about the subject [34]. 

The maximum immission values for SO2 as suggested by the German Association of Engineers (VDI) were strongly influenced by such experiments (Table 2). The even lower and stricter air quality standards to protect forests proposed by the International Union of Forest Research Organization (lUFRO) relate, on the contrary, to dose-response studies in injured forests, also including unfavourable site conditions (Table 3). 

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