LEGAL HARMONIZATION IN ASEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITIES (LOOKING FOR THE BEST LEGAL HARMONIZATION MODEL)

OPINION Legal harmonization and reproductive tourism in Europe

Legislation of ethical issues illustrates the uneasy mix of ethics and politics. Although the majority has the political right to express its moral views in the law, a number of important ethical values like autonomy, tolerance and respect for other people’s opinions urge the majority to take the minorities’ position into account. Ignoring pluralism in society will inevitably lead to reproducti...

Beyond Harmonization: ICT Policymaking in Regional Economic Communities

A spatial tax harmonization model

Policies to harmonize value-added tax rates are controversial in the European Union. This paper formulates a multi-country model over a one-dimensional space as a non-cooperative Nash game, in which each country aims at maximizing its tax revenue, subject to the constraint that its tax rate lies within a given common band. Then we examine the e4ects of changes in the common band on tax rates, t...

harmonization in international trade law: legal analysis of sps agreement's article 3

nowadays, harmonization of regulations regarding the sanitary and phytosanitary measures and its advantages and disadvantages is one of the most controversial issues in international trade law. this issue has gain much attention, in particular, after adoption of the wto's agreement on the application of sanitary and phytosanitary measures (sps agreement) and its emphasis on harmonization of san...

The International Consortium for Harmonization of Clinical Laboratory Results (ICHCLR) – A Pathway for Harmonization

Results from clinical laboratory measurement procedures must be equivalent to enable effective use of clinical guidelines for disease diagnosis and patient management. Analytical results that are harmonized and independent of the measurement system, time, and location of testing is essential for providing adequate patient care. The key to generating harmonized results is establishing traceabili...