Translation of "Schwer messbar" in English

It is clear from these that some important policy issues may hardly be measured at all.

Drying results are dificult to measure, but the drying degree must be over 90 %.

It is clearfrom these that some important policy issues may hardly be measured at all.

Consulting services and their successes are especially difficult to measure.

The pre-load force is difficult to measure during mass-productions.

The size and metal content of massive sulphides, however, are difficult to measure.

The inherent power of culture and its effect on develop- ment processes is difficult to measure.

Undeclared work, while difficult to measure, seems to be on the increase in many Member States.

In their replies, the organisers chiefly mentioned the networks, the impact of which is difficult to measure.

The impact of the policy, although it is probably positive, is currently difficult to quantify.

It is difficult to measure and has to be controlled through prospective measures.

The effects of behaviour change measures, which are hardly quantifiable, are consequently barely demanded.

Since it is hard to measure in practice, reference limits are preferred.

India’s poverty rate (an indicator that is admittedly both conceptually and practically difficult to measure) fell by half between 1981 and 2010, to just under 30% – a remarkable achievement.

Oftentimes, analysts and experts are so busy with data and metrics that they seem to forget those things in life that are difficult to measure and perhaps impossible to cluster under statistical models.

Also it is difficult to precisely measure the benefit of untying, the World Bank and the Development Assistance Committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD/DAC) have produced estimations with a substantial ratio in terms of gain through better value for money.

Comprehensive indicators suggested so far, such as “biological response to stress”, have been criticised (in particular by scientists and producers) as being difficult to measure.

The second problem is linked to the informal economy which, although difficult to gauge, has a negative impact on working conditions in the retail sector, in particular in small and micro-enterprises, where effective enforcement of legislation and collective agreements is more difficult.

Furthermore, some of the objectives set are also broad and difficult to measure and it is too early for this evaluation to have been able to assess any longer term impacts.

However, emission limit values also exist for individual source categories such as large combustion plants and waste incinerators, and other instruments such as the IPPC Directive9 based on the application of best available techniques (BAT) can be expected to lead to further improvements, even though they are difficult to quantify.

This has made it difficult to measure the effectiveness of technical measures in contributing to the achievement of the conservation objectives of the CFP.

Notably, the Programme objectives are too numerous and sometimes too vague and thus difficult to measure.

However it underlines that the specific objectives are not quantified (no indicators), difficult to measure, and that the general objectives seem too ambitious in relation to the means available.

Moreover some of the criteria are qualitative in nature and thus difficult to measure objectively, whereas others are more quantitative.

Some of the objectives set are also broad and difficult to measure and it is too early for this evaluation to have been able to assess any longer term impacts.

If subsidies on products are hard to measure they can be omitted for the purposes of calculating indices over time.

The size of the informal economy is by its very nature difficult to measure, and so is the effect of the efforts undertaken to fight undeclared work.

This is a difficult area to measure statistically, but information concerning such enterprise interactions is needed for understanding the competitiveness of enterprises.