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voice to the global public debate..."

Sept. 2014 - KLG/ITSSD Presentation at: Université Saint-Louis Brussels, Belgium, at the Invitation of Society for Institutional Analysis - Sofia (Damstadt, Germany and Oeko Institut on Behalf of the German Federal Environment Agency (UBA), Policy Workshop - Strengthening REACH Provisions Concerning (Imported) Articles - (In response to L. Kogan's 2013 law review article on the WTO (TBT Agreement) incompatibility of the EU REACH regulation (here) (See also References 2015-2016)

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Jan. 2010 - ITSSD Presentation at: American National Standards Institute ("ANSI") Caucus Luncheon, National Press Club, Washington, DC - Climate Change: Compulsory License or Technology Transfer?

April 2010 - ITSSD Presentation at: American National Standards Institute Intellectual Property Rights Policy Committee (IPRPC) Meeting, Arlington, VA - How SMART Are Standards That Sacrifice Intellectual Property Rights?

Aug. 2009 - ITSSD Prepared Comments Submitted to: Catholic University of America's Center for Global Standards Report - A National Survey of United States Standardization Policies (Ed. Donald Purcell) (pp. 57-60)

Non-Governmental

April 2010 - ITSSD Presentation at: Dulles (Va.) Regional Chamber of Commerce GreenExpo Mixer - Be Green By Measuring Up to Metrics-Based Energy and Environmental Standards

July 2010 - ITSSD Presentation at: United States Commercial Service, Mid-Atlantic District Export Council, Export University, Valley, Forge, PA: Session #4 - Adapting Products to Individual Markets, Export Contracts: Incorporating Regulatory Standards to Ensure Foreign Market Access

Industry

Nov. 2010 - ITSSD Presentation at: U.S. Agricultural Export Council's FY 2011 Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD - discussing the European Union's efforts to shape international standards for environment, health and safety: The European Strategy to Become the New Global Standards-Setter

Governmental

Feb. 2008 - ITSSD Prepared Comments Submitted to: Government of Colombia - ITSSD Technical Comments in response to WTO Notification of Draft Amendment of Colombian Decree 3249 (9/18/06)

Colombian Government Response to ITSSD Technical Comments (April 2008)

Theme #1: International standards should be science-based, cost-efficient, transparent, and developed through a process of openness and consensus, in order to facilitate international trade, investment and innovation and ensure sustainable health and environmental protection and knowledge dissemination.

Balanced, science-based and economically cost-efficient technical standards and regulations help to facilitate trade and investment flows, technological innovations, indigenous economic growth, and health and environmental protection needed to achieve sustainable development. Consensus-based international standards developed by recognized international standards bodies, treaty-based regulatory bodies, and private standards bodies operating within national jurisdiction, and national technical regulations, legislation and other measures promulgated and adopted by WTO Members in implementation thereof, must, at a minimum, be consistent with the provisions of the WTO Agreements, including the Sanitary and Phytosanitary ("SPS"), Technical Barriers to Trade ("TBT"), General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ("GATT 1994"), and Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights ("TRIPS") Agreements. Technical standards, regulations and other measures must not be discriminatory and must constitute the least trade-restrictive alternative available considering the risks non-fulfillment would bring.

ITSSD Programs - Theme #1 (2008-2014)

Science-Based & Economically Cost-Efficient Regulation