Legal status

Standards also give definitions for the characteristics of a material or product, or they provide the means and methods to implement quality tests for them. The difference lies in their method of preparation, therefore, in their legal status. A standard is the result of a consensus between all parties concerned. These parties represent the manufacturers of the product or material, the consumers who are the industries or user services or, ultimately, consumer associations, as well as, finally, governments. 

CTB 941.2-93 defines laboratories subject to accreditation in National system. Among others laboratories with legal status, results of testing and measurements of which are used in assessment of safety of products, works and services, in diagnostics of technical state of critical safety objects and vehicles are noted. These laboratories use different NDT methods in their activities. 

The approval of the procedure of testing gives legal status to it. 

INPADOC (International Patent Documentation Center) is the most comprehensive tttbliographic database of scientific and technological patent documents in the world. The stock encompasses more than 26 miUion patent documents, more than 59 miUion legal status data, and about 10 million patent famihes (January, 2003). The database contains more than 35 milhon patent citations from 71 patent-issuing organizations (European Patent Office, World Intellectual Property Organization (WlPO)) and is updated weekly with about 40 000 new citations. 

INPADOC European Patent Office, Vienna Branch Office, Austria international patents biblio. 26mio records, 35 mio citations, 59mio legal status patent offices STN commercial online weekly mvw.european- patent-offi- ce.org/inpadoc/... 

INPADOC European Patent Office Dialog, Orbit, STN patent family and legal status... 

EPAT. The European Patents Register is produced by the European Patent Office (EPO) and the Institut National de la Propriete IndustrieHe (INPI). The database provides bibhographic, including the first claim of granted (BI) patents, and legal status information on aH European patents and published appHcations. Coverage is from June 1978, the beginning of EP publication, and now iacludes over 450,000 records. Tides oa aH records and... 

INPADOC INPADOC, PATOLIS, DIALOG, ORBIT, STN International Patent Documentation Center international bibliographic data patent families legal status data for 16 countries... 

EPIDOS ties together members of extended convention patent families, and in some instances identifies inteUectual families as weU. Legal status subsequent to pubHcation is also coUected for 16 authorities. 

The Chinese patent file with its abstracts can be used to supplement WPI, which at this writing has only tides for Chinese patents. JAPIO provides abstracts based ia particular oa pateat claims, and can help to clarify uncertainties with Japanese abstracts from Derwent and/or CA. PATOLIS, ia Japanese, is a unique source of Japanese legal status information (37). EPIDOS staff carry out PATOLIS searches on request for those with sufficient need to search the PATOLIS database, software is available to enable those who cannot read Japanese to extract key data. 

The legal status of dairy substitutes varies widely among countries. In the United States, the FDA has held that filled products should be nutritionally equivalent to the products they resemble. In the case of imitation milks, the FDA proposed regulations for nutritional equivalency (31). A section of the Food, Dmg and Cosmetic Act defines misbranded foods, and the FDA has set up standards of identity for foods under this part of the law (32) which includes standards for imitation milks, cheese, and creams (32). 

Guidance notes relevant to sound health and safety practices are published from time to time by the Health and Safety Executive. They have no legal status or significance such as found in Codes of Practice. However, as their content is normally based on a wealth of practical experience, it would be expected by the enforcing authorities that employers would follow the advice contained in them. 

The successful and profitable control of frozen food quality requires workable standards of product quality and condition and suitable methods for determining the degree of product conformance with standards. The frozen fruit and vegetable industry has developed rapidly during the past 20 years and serious concentration upon the development of adequate standards and objective methods for quality measurement is necessary. Such standards and methods should be placed on a uniform basis the country over and given official and legal status. 

Legal status (non-prescription or prescription only, renewable/non-renewable/special/restricted)... 

Legal status of regulatory authority Executive dept. Executive dept. Council Exec. agency Executive dept. Board Executive dept. Statutory authority Executive dept. Statutory authority... 

For proper management and disposal of the aforementioned universal wastes, a waste generator, a waste handler, a transporter, or a destination facility must understand the legal definitions of wastes and their legal status. The following is an overview of legal definitions and related requirements. 

Certification Yes, based on regulation by the state. Assured by legally registered labelling symbols on marketed produce Yes for fair trade no for ethical. No legal status for ethical claims on marketed produce... 

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