But all must adhere to established performance standards.

The advantages of certification include its potential clearly to distinguish those companies that have achieved high levels of performance (as defined by the standards).

For performance audits, provisions of the 2011 Standards guide any performance audit starting after December 15, 2011.

Overall performance has improved , and work on standards has intensified .

The establishment of performance indicators and standards for national institutions.

Its latest project, a labelling programme for mobile phones, focuses on high standards for communication, visual and ergonomic factors and for low emission and ecological performance.

(ii) Updated proposals for workload standards, efficiency and related performance indicators

This is a significant effect, even by the standards of China s superlative growth performance.

The high literacy rate had resulted in high standards of maternal and childcare.

They have also achieved high standards of governance.

Worse still, high levels of public debt, like high taxes, cause serious problems for economic performance.

Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is a chemical process used to produce high quality, high performance, solid materials.

Nor has high taxation in the Nordic countries impeded economic performance.

In paragraph 309 of the report, UNDP agreed with the Board's reiterated recommendation to establish benchmarks for performance for contract letting and to monitor performance against those standards.

Great figures don't meet high standards, but rather make their own.

Moreover, hedge fund managers can easily fake high performance without getting caught.

At the people level, institutional values and standards of conduct and performance should be clearly communicated, monitored and enforced.

In 2008, he trained at the Center for High Performance San Cugat (Barcelona).

She graduated from Millburn High School, where she participated in many school plays her high school performance as Winnifred in Once Upon a Mattress gained her a Paper Mill Playhouse Rising Star Award nomination for Best Performance by a High School Actress.

The EU s political standards are high, but the fruits of cooperation are sweet.

Unfortunately, what happened on this occasion did not meet the required high standards.

By maintaining high environmental standards, and promoting such standards among its trade partners, Europe can bolster the global market for clean energy technologies.

National governments introduce efficiency standards, taxes, and other policy instruments to improve the environmental performance of buildings, vehicles, and transport fuels.

Periodic reporting will remain the primary mechanism for reviewing progress in relation to organizational targets, performance standards and results for children.

While energy prices remain high by historical standards, Gazprom now operates at a loss.

So it should be possible to extract valuable elements like lithium for high performance batteries.

The PIIGS debt burden is so high that robust economic performance is next to impossible.

Achieving high performance involves integrated, whole building design, involving many components, not one single technology.

International companies can bring cash, skills, technology, and high ethical standards to a host country.

It is one of the few media outlets in Russia pursuing high standards of journalism.

The Panel used the same high evidentiary standards in its investigations as in previous reports.

Small and medium enterprises also find it difficult to comply with the high standards set by international markets, including the increasingly stringent environmental and social standards.

The programme includes the development of the Standards of Performance Manuals for hotels and restaurants, as well as a programme of quality inspections.

Recognizing the high professional and personal qualities he brought to the performance of his duties and responsibilities,

The market economy and the profit motive have led to extremely high living standards in many places.

Such high level dialogue, we believe, can help to achieve progress in the implementation of the standards.

This has increased the possibility for the promotion of staff who otherwise meet the high qualification standards.

Taiwan is, de facto, an unrecognized independent state with a vigorous democracy and high standards of human rights.

How Europeans, and to a lesser extent Americans, will maintain their high standards of living is anyone s guess.

We are also dismayed that the report continues to retain a high degree of selectivity and double standards.

When oil prices were high and growing, the government could compensate for poor performance by throwing money at problems.

In order to sustain high performance levels, sufficient time and resources must be secured on a more permanent basis.

(d) Reviews official correspondence from the Director General to high level dignitaries, ensuring adherence to protocol and editorial standards

(c) Donor nations must adhere to high standards in regard to the grant equivalent content of their aid disbursements.

A combination of these and other measures would help Europe to sustain its high living standards in the coming decades.