Sentences with phrase «national economic justifications»

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The only justification for the pervasive policy of trying to increase test scores is that future national economic success will go to the nations with the highest scores.

Yet as a matter of ethics, as we have seen, all nations have a strong ethical duty to reduce their emissions to their fair share of safe global emissions and national economic self - interest is not an acceptable justification for failing to reduce national ghg emissions.

Because many of the justifications for national ghg emissions commitments are based upon economic self - interest, rather than ethical duty to others, these justifications fail to satisfy minimum ethical scrutiny.

Similarly, the Court has held that a Member State fails to fulfil its obligations under Articles 28 EC and 30 EC when, without valid justification, it encourages economic operators wishing to market in its territory construction products lawfully manufactured and / or marketed in another Member State to obtain national marks of conformity (see, to that effect, Commission v Belgium, paragraph 69) or when it refuses to recognise the equivalence of approval certificates issued by another Member State (see, to that effect, Case C ‑ 432 / 03 Commission v Portugal [2005] ECR I ‑ 9665, paragraphs 41, 49 and 52).