Business globalisation requires fast and easy exchange of products, services and all related information. This can most easily be achieved through global standards. Unfortunately the area of standards is rather fragmented itself with national and international standardisation on one side and industry driven initiatives on the other side. Even within the international standardisation scene there...

This paper examines the environmental standards adopted by the Sultanate of Oman in preserving documents and manuscripts, to determine the extent to which these standards coincide with international standards in the storage of documents. To fulfill this aim, the standards adopted in the storage of documents and manuscripts in Oman were monitored and compared with international standards to iden...

This article reveals the leading role of standards in Industrial Ecology. It describes the tendency for the modern stage of world development to introduce widely accepted international standards. Along with this, each country has it own system of standards and respective specifics. A number of significant standards are available for practical operations of industries and institutions, e.g. the ...

This article explores certain international law aspects of the Bhopal disaster, namely the principles and rules of international law establishing international accountability for environmental damage; the criteria for determining the liability of the Union Carbide Company (U. S. A.) for the Bhopal disaster; the criteria for determining compensation; and the international remedies available to t...

This study attempts to compare and highlight the major differences between International Accounting Standards (IAS) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) with National Accounting Standards (NAS) in one of the developing nations, Iran. Over the past two decades, the Iranian accounting standards setter, Audit Organization, has decided to eliminate the differences between IFRS and...

This paper was prepared by Frank Flatters under the USAID/RCSA SADC Trade Protocol Project. The views and opinions expressed here are those of the author and should not be attributed in any way to USAID, the US Government, SADC and its institutions, or any other agency or individual. Comments and suggestions are most welcome and can be sent to [email protected] and