legally binding rule

How, then, did it become a legally binding rule?

This obviously serves to reinforce my wish that in the longer term, these proposals should be turned into legally binding rules.

The protection of European citizens' personal data would have been in serious jeopardy without the certainty of legally binding rules.

Regulations: these are used where a Law delegates to the States Assembly power to make legally binding rules to implement a named Law.

Spain and Portugal have legally binding rules, and Belgium and Luxembourg follow decisions issued by their competent authorities.

The 45 nations are meeting to discuss what is known as the Kimberley Process, under which government and industry figures have been trying to formulate legally binding rules.

Its unique feature is that it sets legally binding rules on investment protection transit and that it contains provisions on dispute resolution in the energy sector.

The magistrate or Zwing(Twing)herr had legally binding rules and regulations in the exercise of low justice in his private jurisdiction.

We are currently examining the need for further actions in order to strengthen the enforcement of EU waste legislation, including legally binding rules for inspections of waste shipments.

From the third power, justice, it differs firstly by freely choosing the subject matters it intends to audit and secondly by not delivering legally binding rules, but by issuing recommendations.

The convention contained ten articles, establishing for the first time legally binding rules guaranteeing neutrality and protection for wounded soldiers, field medical personnel, and specific humanitarian institutions in an armed conflict.

Because of the anonymity of online forums, the quantitative majority of industry members are unable to create any form of legally binding rule or regulation that must be followed throughout the industry.

The Committee rejected the Commission's proposal for a decision because we do not know to this day why it opted for that particular instrument rather than proposing legally binding rules on such an important matter.

In the Palacio report we read that the subsidiarity principle is a legally binding rule and to some degree a warning is given that it must not undermine the powers which the Community has been given by the Treaties.

We will seek to reduce and explore the possibility of reducing and fine-tuning the definition in order to have the volume still further reduced, but there are already legally binding rules that would prevent any access to that data unless there is reasonable suspicion.

The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, the Communist Party-controlled legislature, issued a legally binding ruling last April barring universal suffrage as well as direct elections for chief executive in 2007, while leaving open the prospect of greater democracy in elections held in later years.