TTIP’s Hard Core: Technical barriers to trade and standards. Paper No. 13 in the CEPS-CTR project ‘TTIP in the Balance’ and CEPS Special Report No. 117/August 2015

Michelle Egan and Jacques Pelkmans provide an overview of the TBT chapter in TTIP and the various issues between the US and the EU in this area, which in turn requires extensive expositions of domestic regulation in the US and the EU. TBTs, outside heavily regulated sectors such as chemicals, automobiles or medicines (which have separate chapters in TTIP), can be caused by divergent (voluntary) standards, technical regulations and conformity assessment. Indeed, in all three the US and the EU have long experienced frictions with considerable trading costs. The 1998 Mutual Recognition Agreement about conformity assessment only succeeded in two out of six sectors. The US and European standardisation traditions differ and this paper explains why it is so hard, also economically, to realise convergence. However, the authors reject the unproductive ‘stand-off’ between US and EU negotiators on standardisation and suggest to clarify the enormous economic ‘installed base’ of prominent US standards in the world economy and build a solution from there. As to technical regulation, the prospect of converging regulation (via harmonisation) is often dim, but equivalence (given similar levels of regulatory protection) can be an option.

Science and engineering personnel : a national overview /

"NSF 80-316."

The Stock of science and engineering master's degree-holders in the United States.

Includes bibliographical references.

The Pentateuch in contrast with the science and moral sense of our age.

Each part has separate t.-p.: part 6 has title: The Pentateuch and book of Joshua in face of the science and moral sense of our age.

Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus: the science and the law. A resource guide for judges, prosecutors and law enforcement.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

On science and revelation. Being the presidential address delivered at the annual meeting of the Victoria Institute.

On title page: Author's copy.

Occupational employment survey booklet of definitions : lumber, wood, furniture and fixtures industries.

"BLS-2877 224."

Selections from science and sanity; an introduction to non-Aristotelian systems and general semantics,

"Limited edition for experimental use by teachers and study group leaders."

The history of science and the new humanism,

Mode of access: Internet.

A guide to the history of science; a first guide for the study of the history of science, with introductory essays on science and tradition.

Classified and annotated.

Sedgwick's Principles of sanitary science and public health /

"Published April, 1935. Reprinted ... May, 1940."

Sedgwick's Principles of sanitary science and public health,

Mode of access: Internet.

National Transportation Safety Board reauthorization and Pipeline Safety Act reauthorization : hearing before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, second session, April 16, 1996.

Mode of access: Internet.

Nominations of D. James Baker, Douglas K. Hall, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Arati Prabhakar, and Clarence L. Irving : hearing before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, May 24, 1993.

Shipping list no.: 95-0007-P.

The Clean Vessel Act of 1991 : hearing before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, February 27, 1992.

Shipping list no.: 93-0059-P.