(c) The equally efficient firm test; and

Efforts to facilitate international trade in energy-efficient products could greatly benefit from expanded international cooperation in the harmonization of energy efficiency testing protocols.

On the basis of these criteria, the merger passed the efficiency gains test.

(c) Efficient auditing mechanisms for testing systems and activities.

The challenge faced by these countries is to reform and upgrade their standards-setting regime, establish efficient testing, certification and laboratory accreditation mechanisms to conform to the World Trade Organization (WTO) agreements on technical barriers to trade (TBTs) and sanitary and phyto-sanitary (SPS) measures, and to defend themselves in standards-setting bodies.

These countries need to reform or upgrade their standard-setting regimes, establish efficient testing, certification and laboratory accreditation mechanisms to conform to the World Trade Organization (WTO) agreements on technical barriers to trade (TBTs) and sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures, and to defend themselves effectively in standard-setting bodies.

Steps have been taken also to set up a body, the European Clinical Trials Platform, to increase the number and efficiency of testing in developing countries for new medical technologies and drugs.

(a) All States should become parties to the CTBT to ensure its universality and its efficiency and renounce nuclear testing;

Efficiency: Bench scale tests with oils containing 60 per cent PCBs have achieved destruction removal efficiencies ranging from 99.9999 to 99.999999 per cent.

Efficiency: Bench-scale tests with oils containing 60 per cent PCBs have achieved DREs ranging from 99.9999 to 99.999999 per cent.