Usually the most that governments have been prepared to do is to publicise their activities and/or to seek voluntary undertakings.

These precepts take the form of voluntary, personal undertakings, not divine mandate or instruction.

He argues that being part of a family, however, is not a voluntary undertaking.

A duty can arise through contract, a voluntary undertaking, a blood relation with whom one lives, and occasionally through one's official position.

I am also all for cutting red tape in Parliament - she says self-critically - but are voluntary undertakings towards industry the solution?

Industrial regulations and voluntary undertakings by companies do not offer a reassuring solution.

Voluntary measures, such as green pricing and voluntary undertakings within industry are certainly helpful, but fall far short of what is needed.

So there should be binding standards as a minimum basis, supplemented by voluntary undertakings.

First: we must make it clear that if the monitoring data show that the voluntary undertaking does not work, then legislation will follow.

We need an independent data register for monitoring the voluntary undertaking and I feel that this needs to be clearly stated in the directive.