Canada pledged internationally to meet its commitment on the Kyoto Protocol, which was supposed to be legally binding.
Labour rebels, who fear greater freedom from local authorities could mean a "back-door" return to academic selection at age 11, want a national code on admissions to be made legally binding.
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Ministers had previously denied the claim and argued that these words did not need to be written into legally binding regulations.
The manner in which that cooperation is undertaken will be determined by the president in conjunction with the government of Iraq, but it does not constitute a security commitment that rises to the level of a legally binding assurance which would, of course, have to be submitted to the Senate.
However, if the dispute cannot be resolved through continuing negotiation, BBC Wales has said a legally-binding copyright tribunal will be used to resolve the issue.
The thinking in Brussels, I am told, is that it should be possible to meet his demands with a legally binding declaration or summit conclusions from the assembled heads of government, stating that nothing in the Lisbon treaty or the Charter of Fundamental Rights changes the historical settlements on property claims by the descendants of expelled Germans.
The Germans have produced a legally binding corporate-governance code, to be reviewed once a year.
Mr Menem's bold reply was to propose a national referendum, and one that would be legally binding.
The British hope that because the charter is likely to be adopted as a political declaration only, not as a legally binding text, it will not cause too much of a fuss.
Now Yekhanurov has threatened to refer the dispute to an international arbitrator, the Stockholm Institute, whose decision could be legally binding for both countries.
On 12 December, he described the declaration to be "soft international law, " essentially a political document with no legally binding effect.
Resolutions from the World Health Assembly are not legally binding, so the US and Russia cannot be forced to destroy stocks even if the majority of nations wanted it to happen.
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In its peace agreement with Brussels, which would be legally binding for a period of five years, Google promises to make users in Europe "clearly aware" when promoting its own specialist search services -- such as those for restaurants, finance and shopping.
Although the Parliament's opinion is not legally binding, it would nevertheless be politically delicate for the Commission to publicly ignore the warning.
It will not be legally binding, but what it will do is allow for each country to show to the world what they're doing, and there will be a sense on the part of each country that we're in this together, and we'll know who is meeting and who's not meeting the mutual obligations that have been set forth.
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If a company has breached commitments made legally binding by way of an Article 9 decision, it may be fined up to 10% of its total annual turnover.
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It has proposed an amendment to the pact that would replace the legally binding language with a provision that retailers that failed to live up to the standards be publicly expelled from the program.
Inspectors found that while the Prison Rules 1999 set out legally binding entitlements for remand prisoners, appearing to suggest remand and sentenced prisoners should not be required to share a cell under any circumstances, Prison Service policy gave discretion to governors and sharing mixed cells was "the norm".
As part of the legally binding agreement, retailers would be liable when there's a factory fire and would have to pay factory owners more to make repairs.
Although not legally binding, the guidance could well be used in a court case in which someone is seeking to force an organisation to improve the accessibility of its website.
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