Such changes, because they involve some further ceding of national sovereignty and powers, will require ratification by the nations involved, and very possibly by all 27 members of the European Union, which would mean referendums in a few countries.
A contraceptive that can be administered remotely to mares, with darts, was approved for wider use last month by federal regulators; that will make wild horse numbers more controllable, but also, critics say, more artificial, their wildness further ceded to an accounting ledger in Washington.
On Wednesday, a 5-4 Supreme Court decision struck down overall limits on campaign donations, further ceding our political system to the highest bidder in the guise of "free speech".
Without more agile, adaptable regulation focused on providing good education at reasonable cost, however, America could find itself further ceding its leadership, and its young people's prospects dimmed.
In 1998, an area (Lately Common) was further ceded to the Warrington borough – one of the few parts of England to have been in three different counties since the mid-20th century: Lancashire, then Greater Manchester, then Cheshire.
Lakshmi Mittal is preparing to raise his €23bn (£16bid bid for Arcelor by several billions and cede further family control over the combined group.
But the unions are not in a mood to cede further ground, after failing this year to block legislation that reduced pension benefits for future public workers.
After years of intransigence on both sides, Macedonia's leader has now implied he may be prepared to cede further ground to Greece, nearly two-and-a-half decades after the dispute first began in the aftermath of the breakup of Yugoslavia.
In some scenarios once a biobank has been granted ethical clearance as a bona fide biobank then an ethics committee could cede further decisions specific to the highly specialised field of biobanking to the biobanking ethics review committee.
In 1704 Dutch forces assisted in replacing Amangkurat III with his uncle, Pakubuwono I, in return for which further territory was ceded.
