It was approved by MPs without a vote but it is not binding on ministers.
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And although it is not binding on Mr Cameron, it has sparked comparisons with Sir John Major's Conservative government which was torn apart by splits on Europe in the 1990s.
It is not legally binding and requires no financial commitment at this stage, but a formal and legally binding agreement will be made as the partnership progresses.
If the administration negotiates this agreement - whether you call it a treaty or not this agreement - is it going to be binding on the next president?
The FTC decision is technically not binding for other businesses, but it is likely to be used to set some new rules of the road for the licensing of standard essential patents across the technology sector as well as in other industries.
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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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Although the Parliament's opinion is not legally binding, it would nevertheless be politically delicate for the Commission to publicly ignore the warning.
What I think that some people are going to legitimately ask is, well, if it's not legally binding what prevents us from, 10 years from now, looking and saying, you know, everybody fell short of these goals and there's no consequences to it?
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That is not binding on the Dutch, of course, but it may affect their decision.
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It is treating Article 75 of Protocol 1 as legally binding, though it has not been ratified by the Senate.
It is easy to say that terrorists should not obtain nuclear bombs, and the meeting produced no binding accords.
The industry is said to fear the recommendations of the report even though it would not lead to a binding treaty or any new legal obligations.
"The European Parliament's opinion is not binding, and if the Commission complies with the negative opinion, it sets a dangerous precedent for the powers of the Commission in the future, " said an EU official who asked not to be identified.
It means that Dr Schneider can tell whether or not the signal from any particular binding site is too noisy to be useful in other words, whether it is a damaging mutation.
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It also seems that while some have claimed its decisions are not binding, I am not sure there is anything within the law that would prevent the HHS Secretary from changing that.
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.
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