11.   This should last until bribery scandals had been investigated and proper environmental standards enforced, they said.

12.   The company had let environmental standards slide.

13.   What right has one country to dictate the environmental standards of another?

14.   The report argued against the imposition of bans on imports from countries with low environmental standards.

15.   Over the past few years, companies throughout the Group have implemented a range of equipment and procedures to improve environmental standards and comply with COSHH regulations.

16.   A new law in the German city of Munich has laid down strict environmental standards for burials and cremations.

17.   The code has been proposed as a stop-gap pending the negotiation of an international agreement on environmental standards which Baucus described as likely to be decades away.

18.   Under the code, each country would be allowed to meet its own environmental standards.

19.   According to the Senator, the incentive of avoiding duties would encourage the manufacture of products with higher environmental standards.