Moreover, the legal instrument needed to create it gives Britain a veto.
Over the 10 years of its existence, this treaty has become the foremost international legal instrument for the protection of the world's submerged cultural heritage.
This Convention is the leading legal instrument guiding underwater archaeology worldwide.
This convention is the first legal instrument to give recognition to the distinctive nature of cultural activities, goods and services as vehicles of identity, values and meaning.
As an Organization in the United Nations system with an institutional mandate for sport, UNESCO has promoted the development of the International Convention against Doping in Sport, which was the first legal instrument against doping worldwide.
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Participants welcomed another new law in the pipeline, on the transparency of state institutions to the mass-media, as another effective legal instrument to exercise the right to access information, which is judged to improve good governance and civil society participation in decision-making.
When the Convention for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions came into force in 2007, for this first time in modern history, the right of states to adopt policies to protect and promote their cultural expressions was affirmed in an international legal instrument.
It is not a governmental instrument of legal tender that requires regulatory legitimacy and coercion by law in order to gain acceptance.
And as the US left the protocol years ago, nations still signed on account only for about 15% of global emissions - which is why there is so much emphasis on a new instrument, with some legal force, covering all countries.
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Identification and verification of intangibles in the context of border enforcement poses logistical and potential legal issues that are not contemplated by currency and monetary instrument declaration regulations.
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