The phrase "a formal charter" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an official document that outlines the rights, privileges, or responsibilities of an organization or group.
Example: "The organization was established under a formal charter that defined its mission and governance structure."
Alternatives: "an official charter" or "a legal charter".
The countries have been meeting informally since 2001 and adopted a formal charter in Moscow a year ago.
Dover claims to be a Saxon borough by "prescription," without a formal charter of incorporation.
A formal Charter of Fundamental Rights was incorporated into the constitution and given legal force.
To this day, the F.B.I. lacks a formal charter, and its financing has often been shrouded in secrecy.
The group has been meeting informally since 2001 and adopted a formal charter in Moscow in 2008.
Regardless of board structure, technology discussions should likely be a formal charter for one of the board's committees.
But if we assume that NATO has some military role to play as a sort of world police force--and Clinton's urgency in calling NATO members first over the current Iraq confrontation would seem to indicate this is the case if not under any formal charter--then NATO should divide up responsibilities.
With no formal charter, a limited bureaucratic structure, and no permanent secretariat, leaders of the G7 discuss major economic issues in an informal setting.
Cerberus said this would protect the investors' financial interests while keeping them out of the gun-control debate, which it said in December was "more properly pursued by those with the formal charter and public responsibility to do so".
"We believe that this decision allows us to meet our obligations to the investors whose interests we are entrusted to protect without being drawn into the national debate that is more properly pursued by those with the formal charter and public responsibility to do so," said Cerberus, which hired the investment bank Lazard to handle the auction process.
"We believe that this decision allows us to meet our obligations to the investors whose interests we are entrusted to protect without being drawn into the national debate that is more properly pursued by those with the formal charter and public responsibility to do so," the firm said in its statement.
