Many countries have minimum wage laws, and some have historically relied on binding collective bargaining, rather than legislation.
For another, the new stress is on binding the likes of Romania into the West to enhance its civic value.
The 27-nation bloc must agree on binding origin disclosures for food product ingredients, starting with a better labeling of meat products, German Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner said.
The Qataris had reason for pleasure: the money did not go, as originally intended, on binding together the Israeli and Arab economies, but, largely, on developing Qatar's own oil and gas industry.
Democrats also aren't giving up on binding arbitration, which would let a federal arbitrator impose a contract if management and a newly established union at a work site aren't able to agree within 90 days.
The council should agree on a binding process for any country found in non-compliance.
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Also on 21 March, the USSR Supreme Soviet voted to make the results of the March 17 referendum on the future of the Soviet Union binding on all 15 Union republics.
Requiring expedited votes on economically significant or controversial agency rules before they become binding on the population would reestablish congressional accountability, helping to fulfill a principle of 'no regulation without representation.
Using US data, we find that adopting say-on-pay, a regular non-binding shareholder vote on executive compensation (similar to issue 1 in the Swiss referendum, although it will be a binding vote in Switzerland) and removing staggered boards (similar to issue) along with other corporate governance improvements unambiguously improves firm value on average, as reflected by the stock market.
On 14 July 2010, former deputy prime minister Lord Prescott, who attended the conference last December as the Council of Europe's rapporteur on climate change, criticised the push for a legally binding agreement on emissions.
That is not binding on the Dutch, of course, but it may affect their decision.
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It was approved by MPs without a vote but it is not binding on ministers.
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The BSP said it supported the government because the move was not binding on states.
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These votes are not binding on the FDA, but the committees have the feel of jury trials.
It is an irrevocable election binding on the partnership for all future transactions.
Whether we can do so may turn on whether the binding constraint comes from regulation or from the market.
Since one court's rulings are not binding on another, a single legal question can be tried separately thousands of times.
And there's another thing: even if Barclays had lost the vote, it would not have been binding on the bank.
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Mr Cable made it clear at the time that the legislation would include measures to make shareholders' votes binding on companies.
Tonight's vote is not binding on delegates to that convention, so this isn't really any more than a glorified opinion poll.
However, the council said the vote was an "expression of the views of the electorate" and "not binding on any body".
The government was expected to win easily - and even if it had lost, the result would not be binding on ministers.
If that occurs, will the decisions made during an injunction-governed draft still be binding on the NFL and players for this season?
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Hamburg, where the party is forming its first state-level coalition with the Greens, will seek to make referendums binding on the legislature.
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The court, whose rulings are binding on member states, sits in Luxembourg.
The government calls for a new procedure so the Strasbourg court can offer advisory opinions that would not be binding on national courts.
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Thus the English ruling is binding on all EU courts: at least unless and until it is appealed up to the more senior courts.
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