The phrase "affect the obligation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing how certain actions or events may influence or change a duty or responsibility.
Example: "Changes in the law may affect the obligation of the parties involved in the contract."
Alternatives: "influence the duty" or "impact the responsibility."
Such policies negatively affect the obligation of member states under international humanitarian law and European law," he told MPs.
Mr. Shulman said that the number of voluntary disclosures would not affect the obligation of UBS to disclose 4,450 names.
The fact that Cayman is tax-neutral does not affect the obligation of the stakeholders in these transactions to pay tax in their home jurisdictions.
BP's behavior and actions likely represent gross negligence or willful misconduct and thus affect the obligations of the parties under the operating agreement".
Taking the initiative to repay some investors will not affect the firms' obligations, an NASD spokeswoman, Nancy Condon, said.
A prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, said his office had already made such a request and "will continue to pursue it, to make sure that whatever occurred in the McVeigh case, if there are any technological glitches, that it doesn't affect the discovery obligations that we believe we have met here".
Cutting payroll taxes does not affect the government's obligation to pay benefits to older Americans.
Reforming the Human Rights Act 1998 will not affect the government's obligation under article 46 of the convention to "abide by the final decision of the court in any case to which they are parties".
He explained that while failure to comply with the new filing requirement would not affect the borrower's obligation to repay a loan, it could result in the loss of the "perfection" of the lien.
And in order to ease our illustrations we shall use a uniform cost of the minimum services (US$60) in all our examples since this does not affect the validity of the obligation we are proposing and the mechanism we are recommending.
One reason Indonesia stressed the CBD is that it provided a way to finesse the implications of the revised IHRs adopted by WHA in May 2005 (IHR 2005) (19 ), which provide that "[t]he provisions of the IHR shall not affect the rights and obligations of any State Party deriving from other international agreements" (article 57.1).
