They said they needed regulatory harmonization, but there was no evidence that the lack of regulatory harmonization was impeding trade.
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To their credit, regulators should be recognized for making strides towards harmonization, including the formation of a Regulatory Harmonization Working Group.
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They deserve greater priority over trade liberalization and regulatory harmonization.
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"A harmonization of methods is usually not easy," Dubecke said.
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QUINTANILLA: DOES THERE NEED TO BE SOME FEDERAL HARMONIZATION OF REGULATION?
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"Here harmonization will take place extremely gradually at best," he cautioned.
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"Harmonization of collective bargaining agreements within Dow across North America is critical."
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Supporters of such harmonization include the WHO and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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There has been cross-jurisdictional harmonization through mutual recognition in the international context.
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"Another is the lack of harmonization of standards," he added, particularly in Islamic finance.
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The UK could seek to advocate for SSA harmonization discussions alongside the TTIP deal.
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Harmonization of legislation, and equally strong penalties between countries, is also a prerequisite for success.
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Digital platforms like Foursquare are producing "a harmonization of tastes" across the world, Schwarzmann says.
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But it may be a reasonable compromise if it secures much needed national harmonization and simplification.
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Enhanced harmonization of regulatory standards and supervision would improve the efficient use of critical cyber resources.
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This approach could involve incorporating tax harmonization schemes into bilateral or multilateral trade agreements, for example.
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Greater harmonization of data protection rules is certainly an impetus for updating the EU's legal framework around privacy.
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Given NAFTA's performance, negotiators should work toward the fuller policy harmonization and the creation of stronger enforcement tools.
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The challenge of harmonization among the states, as well as with foreign laws such as GDPR has becomes complex.
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Without harmonization around trade reporting requirements across U.S. regulatory bodies, data reporting compliance becomes unnecessarily more challenging and inefficient.
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In turn, this should lead to more harmonization in enforcement across Europe, in particular with regard to cookie notices.
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"There should be standards that are cross-nations, there should be harmonization of all of those rules," he said.
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Giancarlo has also repeatedly voiced concerns(here) about the global swap market and harmonization challenges between international and U.S. regulations.
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The work, which best fits this idea of harmonization within conflict scenarios is "Julia's Wild," which Kuorinki realized in 2012.
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"We all know that we need more harmonization," she told a joint news conference with Luxembourg's Prime Minister Xavier Bettel.
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This collaboration is critical to the harmonization of policy and regulatory standards to expand trade between the U.S. and Mexico.
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The potential for harmonization, and ultimately, reduced inefficiencies is yet to be fully realized by both government and grant recipients.
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This access, however, is hindered by the lack of harmonization between the swaps and security-based swaps data reporting rules.
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The program includes tax reform and harmonization of policies and procedures for registration of companies and issue of work permits.
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That would also require harmonization of labor, health care and education policies, and a whole range of other social welfare programs.
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ITU faces several significant problems that keep it from excelling at its primary, but not sole, responsibility: global radio spectrum harmonization.
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"The Irish government is opposed to any global tax harmonization because it will harm its ability to attract foreign direct investment."
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It was really a harmonization of how to solve the problem and how to fund the problem, all through his leadership.
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"Longer spectrum licenses and harmonization send a pro-investment signal to boardrooms and investors across Europe," a telecoms industry source said.
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These goals include unfettered cross-border data flows, regulatory harmonization, stronger labor and environmental standards and a ban on currency manipulation.
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" DIEGO NARANJO - policy advisor, European Digital Rights "The GDPR has brought a higher degree of harmonization, new rights, clarifications and stronger fines.
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In particular, as advancing food safety is a priority for AFFI, we look forward to provisions on food sanitation that facilitate harmonization.
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Thanks to that harmonization of rules, Calzada said, U.S. authorities will automatically validate the organic certifications of the Mexican and Canadian governments.
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The U.K. never was enamored with the euro or many other integration plans, such as the Schengen agreement, banking union, and taxation harmonization.
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"The economy — that's all of us — would receive a permanent 'harmonization dividend' "— the efficiency benefits that come from a unified time zone. Drawbacks?
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Others look at stricter regulations in China and Europe and say California's more aggressive stance will help achieve global harmonization on emissions rules.
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May's latest proposal to the rest of Europe outlines a "common rulebook for all goods" as well as "continued harmonization" with EU rules.
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On Monday, she vowed to work with France on a joint corporate tax policy, digital initiatives and the harmonization of arms export policies.
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Speaking at a Futures Industry Association conference, he said, "We've been waiting for deliverables" citing Project KISS, harmonization of swap regulations and other initiatives.
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In April 2018, Giancarlo laid out a more definitive roadmap for swaps reform, which attempts to address many of the challenges including European harmonization.
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An added benefit of such a system would be the harmonization of corporate tax bases, which right now are being eroded by tax engineering.
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There's a reason why the European Union is moving toward a single market but can't agree at all on budget, tax harmonization and debt.
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He says his and other groups pushing for more harmonization aren't trying to get carmakers to nix their unique marketing of these features altogether.
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One step to be taken is defining international harmonization requirements so manufacturers can certify only once while gaining access to North America and beyond.
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For example, the harmonization of laws and regulations across the EU means that companies can maintain a single corporate headquarters for all of Europe.
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The WTO countries agreed to prioritize the implementation of advanced goods process automation, adoption of cooperative rules, regulatory harmonization, and customs data exchanges between countries.
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He called for more policy coordination and harmonization between countries so that emerging markets can lead global growth alongside a recovery in the U.S. economy.
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And, in a world where the U.S. still rules financial markets and regulatory harmonization is a huge goal, the rest of the world follow us.
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Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland later told reporters that the three sides had made "solid progress" on topics such as electronic border forms and harmonization of regulations.
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In other words, where free trade agreements create regulatory harmonization between countries, and where they promote cooperation and automation between border clearance agencies, they are most effective.
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"The real huge steps towards financial burden sharing, tax harmonization and loss of national sovereignty are still highly unlikely to happen, even though they should," he added.
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Oettinger also emphasized that 5G harmonization is important, and companies should work together in order not to hurt the technology by pushing out the individual company first.
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This trend of wage harmonization is not limited to India and is making international investment less attractive to firms who wish merely to cut their labor costs.
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Strengthening governments' technical capacities, encouraging the harmonization of regulations and tendering procedures, helping to create credible off-takers and system operators - all this will help Africa's electrification.
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Indra Nooyi, the soon-to-be-retired CEO of Pepsi, suggested a harmonization with the European financial system, which did away with mandatory quarterly reporting in 2013.
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As Vox's Zack Beauchamp in 2016 the harmonization of laws and regulations across the EU means that companies can maintain a single corporate headquarters for all of Europe.
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The CFTC also sees itself as a global leader in swaps reporting but faces difficult challenges of harmonization with international regulators, particularly in reforming swaps trading and SEFs.
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The TFA promotes the implementation of advanced automation in the processing of goods, along with the adoption of cooperative rules, regulatory harmonization and Customs data exchanges between countries.
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The African Development Bank last year agreed to provide $1.2 billion to finance the harmonization plan, which includes construction of modern storage facilities, farm rehabilitation and disease control.
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That, of course, would involve a complete and formal transfer of sovereignty over important state functions because it would also necessitate harmonization of social and labor market legislations.
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For example, the CFTC has made laudable progress on cross-border harmonization with the EU and have introduced substituted compliance/equivalence determinations on both clearing and trade execution.
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Modern trade pacts, after all, generally aren't about trade per se — they're about "harmonization" of regulation and intellectual property rules to suit the needs of big global exporters.
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The EU should have a core of between six and 12 members states that would pursue closer cooperation on matters including tax harmonization and employment rights, he said.
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This has led to growing calls for some degree of harmonization, although there has been voluntary cooperation for years, with an EU-wide network set up in 2013.
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"We would challenge governments, including congresses and parliaments, presidents and prime ministers, to put harmonization on their agenda," they wrote in an editorial in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
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For a number of European countries it would be a severe impact if we don't get some harmonization and regulatory convergence between the UK and Britain into the future.
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Merkel or Schulz will be willing partners, and issues like a euro zone finance minister, common budget, and closer corporate tax harmonization policy are all on the negotiating table.
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Certainly, it is rather anti-American (in that Americans prefer choice and freedom), and almost definitely morally unsound, as care levels would naturally fall with harmonization across the nation.
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"Halsey's vocals blended flawlessly alongside those of band members Hillary Scott, Charles Kelley, and Dave Haywood, who also helped out with harmonization on the stripped back verses of "Graveyard.
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They pointed out that without international harmonization of rates, each country will try to attract investment by lowering its rate — a "race to the bottom" that erodes its tax base.
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"The approach taken and the criteria set forward will inevitably lead to a lack of harmonization, potential challenges and lesser protection for clean athletes," WADA Director General Olivier Niggli said.
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It also highlights the lack of clarity surrounding taxation and national legislation, which deters many transnational investors, and the immaturity of regulators, which hinders the harmonization and allocation of terrestrial frequencies.
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H.R. 4790, or the Volcker Rule Harmonization Act, places the rule's regulatory authority under the Federal Reserve, lowering the overall administrative costs of compliance and freeing capital to better serve consumers.
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The ability of providers to charge different prices to different insurers likely would disappear, and the ensuing price harmonization would not occur at the lower price obtained by the big insurer.
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One of Giancarlo's top concerns has been the rules for swap execution facilities (SEFs), more precisely, a need to reform swaps trading and SEFs, particularly the harmonization of rules with European SEFs.
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"Both states will deepen the integration of their economies towards a German-French economic area with common rules," said the treaty text, referring also to calls for the harmonization of economic law.
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By quickly reconciling the Crapo bill with the House passed Volcker Rule Harmonization Act and other bipartisan House bills, Congress could provide consumers relief from the harmful unintended consequences of Dodd-Frank.
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With the stage set for cross-regulatory agency harmonization efforts, the CFTC and SEC should prioritize and, indeed, expedite these efforts that are critical to achieving greater transparency into the swaps market.
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Beginning with the establishment of the European Economic Community in March of 85033, the prevailing trendline among a growing number of countries on the European continent has been toward integration and harmonization.
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He has pressed his regional counterparts to embrace a more ambitious approach to matters such as European defense cooperation and tax harmonization, and said EU treaty change should not be viewed as taboo.
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Elsewhere on Capitol Hill, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will examine "cybersecurity regulation harmonization" on Wednesday featuring outside government efforts and a chief information officer with the government of Oklahoma.
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SJ: And if we can talk about GST harmonization, and the move towards a common market, tell me about rollout, implementation, and what that's going to do for tax receipts and tax generation?
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So Leo's letter began a long (and complicated) process of harmonization between America and Rome, sealed in the 1960s at the Second Vatican Council, in which the church's political thought was tacitly Americanized.
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No longer beholden to the synthesized pop that was glorified in the year 2000, they were able to showcase their musical chops, from Taylor's playfulness on the piano to their polished a capella harmonization.
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The agreement underscores an unusual degree of harmonization between the two U.S. markets watchdogs, which in the past have been accused by the industry of jacking up their compliance bills by failing to coordinate.
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European companies will be allowed to bid for public contracts in Canada and the deal bans the sale of imitations of 1433 European delicacies in Canada, the deal also foresees the harmonization of standards.
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GPDR represents the harmonization of data protection laws throughout the EU. The incoming legislation, which offers greater rights to individuals, aims to apply broader pressure for transparency about the origin and accuracy of content.
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Reading the Ingels design on metaphorical terms, to me it symbolizes not the potential harmonization of older human-scaled structures with newer post–human scale megastructures in our cityscape, but rather their basic irreconcilability.
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Finally, the euro zone should pursue the Capital Markets Union idea put forward by the European Commission which entailed a harmonization of corporate, insolvency ad tax laws across Europe to make cross-border investment easier.
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The Union of Concerned Scientists said the harmonization legislation and a similar bill introduced in the Senate would allow manufacturers to make vehicles that are on average 2003 miles a gallon less efficient in 2021.
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Britain's EU friends would lose a powerful ally on issues such as upholding free and unfettered competition, curbing state aid to industry, resisting tax harmonization, and opposing barriers to trade with China and other emerging economies.
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His 1990 symphonic poem "The Confession of Isobel Gowdie," about the 19603th-century torture and burning of an accused Scottish witch, ends with a serene string harmonization of a plainchant drawn from the Catholic Requiem Mass.
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"Clearly China has been the white-hot engine for luxury growth lately — but this is also a global story, and price harmonization across markets is better than it was a few years ago," Mr. Chauvet said.
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This would involve a harmonization of corporate taxes, an investment budget and possibly even a EU Finance Minister Outside of Germany, the most immediate impact of the new coalition will be felt in the United Kingdom.
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"Anything other than a quick equivalence determination would be a massive setback for cross-border harmonization, not just for the UK but for other countries trying to access the EU," ISDA Chief Executive Scott O'Malia said.
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Finally, there is an argument that investors in European companies rely on the quarterly reports of U.S. companies in similar spaces, in order to track market demand, although Nooyi appears to believe that "harmonization" is more beneficial.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - The finance ministers of Germany and France plan to present a roadmap for the harmonization of their countries' corporate taxes at a joint meeting of their governments on Thursday, the German business newspaper Handelsblatt reported.
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Reciprocity could have been in place decades ago if only the FDA had met its longstanding commitment to pursue it through the International Conference on Harmonization of Technical Requirements for Registration of Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH).
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Yet because any use of so-called "price harmonization" would make Tiffany's goods more expensive for U.K. shoppers, it could cause them to stop buying the brand's products, and result in the merchant generating lower sales and profitability.
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"I think it would help even in our industry if there would be some kind of harmonization of the transport regulations," Bolt co-founder Martin Villig told CNBC in an interview at the Viva Technology conference in Paris.
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"Harmonization is key, as there are already very real concerns about whether the cumulative effect of these rules is unduly restricting the maturity transformation that is essential to the role that banks play in supporting economic growth," he said.
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Ultimately, it makes sense to modernize the United States' free trade agreements to increase U.S. exports, prioritize the streamlining and harmonization of trade regulations between the U.S. and its trade partners, and meet the demands of the digital economy.
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Trade deals with countries outside the bloc would continue to be managed entirely by the European authorities in Brussels, and there would be "greater harmonization of tax rules and rates" to reduce compliance costs and limit tax evasion. 4.
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The "Treasury's review of the derivatives market found the need for greater harmonization between the SEC and CFTC, more appropriate capital and margin treatment for derivatives, and resolution of cross-border frictions that fragment global markets," the report said.
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Scholz told Reuters that France and Germany have made progress in talks about the harmonization of their corporate tax systems, the future role of the euro zone's bailout fund ESM and the creation of a common backstop for struggling banks.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany and France have agreed a joint proposal for corporate tax harmonization among EU member states to fight tax avoidance and level the playing field for companies doing business in the bloc, the German Finance Ministry said on Wednesday.
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Probably because having dabbled in video and audio editing and effects, timing and frame rate stuff was always a pain (though thankfully we've mostly left behind interlacing and other legacy cruft) and I would welcome harmonization really of any sort.
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"We want to make a sign that endangered, rare, protected animals do have a right to live here in Germany and form an integral part of our ecosystem, and we think there needs to be harmonization between the countries," he said.
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Beyond the issue of posted workers, Macron is likely to be on a charm offensive to drum up support for proposed wider reforms to the European Union that include deeper defense cooperation, fiscal harmonization and a common budget for the euro zone.
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While this kind of regulatory harmonization can grease the wheels of trade, it can also in practice amount to a kind of race to the bottom where business interests push what's essentially a deregulatory agenda cloaked in the complexities of a trade agreement.
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"I think that a euro zone finance minister, some reshuffling of European funds to get closer to a euro zone unemployment insurance and further policy harmonization are the most feasible next steps," Carsten Brzeski, chief economist at ING, told CNBC via email.
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Juncker has said that he would be in favor of moving to majority voting in sectors such as sales tax, digital taxes, financial transaction levies and the harmonization of EU countries' tax bases, which would reduce governments' tools for attracting firms with tax sweeteners.
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The harmonization of drone rules is likely to be welcomed by operators in Europe who currently face having to do a lot of due diligence ahead of deciding whether or not to pack a drone in their suitcase before heading to another EU country.
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"It's very impressive as a data collection and harmonization effort, and of course they have only scratched the surface of what it might have to offer," said Philip Cohen, a sociology professor at the University of Maryland, who was not involved in the research.
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As explained in a paper called "Deep Painterly Harmonization" posted to the arXiv preprint server in April, paintings are harder to add objects to than photographs because the tools used for manipulating photographs were not designed to handle the brush textures and abstraction typical of painted artworks.
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Both the FAA and EASA have taken additional steps toward harmonization by teaming with civil aviation authorities from around the world as part of the Joint Authorities for Rulemaking on Unmanned Systems (JARUS) initiative, which aims to develop common technical, safety and operational standards for UAS.
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The UK and the EU would maintain a common rulebook for all goods including agri‐food, with the UK making an upfront choice to commit by treaty to ongoing harmonization with EU rules on goods, covering only those necessary to provide for frictionless trade at the border.
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The agreement underscores an unusual degree of harmonization between the two U.S. markets watchdogs and comes amid a broader push by two appointees of U.S. President Donald Trump - SEC Chairman Jay Clayton and CFTC Chairman Christopher Giancarlo - to coordinate more closely on policy and enforcement matters.
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" Electronic and retail groups have defended the current rules on air shipments of lithium ion batteries, saying they "will maintain the principle of harmonization while assuring U.S. regulations are updated to reflect the most recent ICAO actions and, of equal importance, assure more aggressive action to enforce international safety standards.
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I think they seek to do that, but in some of the working groups there seems to be a disconnect between space policy and the role we play in 5G services and the spectrum that will be made available for 5G services and the need for harmonization throughout the world.
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"Shortening the settlement cycle, while not a regulatory mandate in the United States, is an industry effort that is expected to yield important benefits including reduced counterparty risk, decreased clearing capital requirements, reduced pro-cyclical margin and liquidity demands and increased global settlement harmonization," according to a T+2 report posted to SIFMA's website.
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Both amounts are excluding non-recurring it employee harmonization costs of net 2.5 million euros * Net result in Q3 of 1.9 million euros, YTD: 2.8 million euros * 3 pct growth in assets under administration to 519 billion euros and new clients in all three home markets (the Netherlands, Germany and UK) Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage: ($1 = 0.9172 euros) (Gdynia Newsroom)
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Calzada, who is in Washington, D.C., for meetings with U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom VilsackThomas James VilsackUSDA: Farm-to-school programs help schools serve healthier meals OVERNIGHT MONEY: House poised to pass debt-ceiling bill MORE, said harmonization of agricultural rules between the three NAFTA partners — the United States, Mexico and Canada — is a major factor in the region's "vigorous" agricultural commerce.
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