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Excerpt from The Increasing Importance of International Standards to the U. S. Industrial Community and the Impact of Iso 14000: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Technology of the Committee on Science, U. S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session, June 4, 1996 The Subcommittee met at 1:40 p.m., in Room 2318 of the Rayburn House Office Building, the Honorable Constance A. Morella, Chairwoman of the Subcommittee, presiding. Mrs. Morella. The meeting of the Subcommittee on Technology of the Science Committee will now be called to order and commence. I want to welcome the people on our panel, who are all the experts on an issue that is of great importance. And I'm pleased to convene this hearing to discuss international standards and the impact of ISO 14000. This hearing is the first of two hearings this week - the Technology Committee has scheduled these hearings - which address issues of extreme importance to the industrial community. Today, we will be discussing international standards. On Thursday, we re going to be examining the patent examination process. Both of these topics are business issues which have a profound effect on our global competitiveness. I want to thank you all for being here to discuss this very important subject and, as you know, it was so difficult to try to schedule a time for this meeting when all of you could come together, that we hesitated to even try to cancel the meeting to try to reschedule at another date. This is a day, of course, where Congress is not voting on anything and we have several other members who will be joining us, and the Ranking Member is here with us. Any member who is not here will be given the full text of your testimony. Harmonizing standards world-wide by developing a global set of standards assists companies in eliminating trade barriers and decreasing the cost of business. The International Standards Organization - ISO - was created in 1946 to promote the development of international standards. It's a nongovernmental, world-wide organization headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.