Sentence examples for legally binding protocol from inspiring English sources

The prime minister insisted upon a legally binding "protocol" to protect the City from more EU financial regulations.

The principle that poorer countries should pay less into the EC's budget appears in a legally binding protocol.

This means that Cameron is unlikely to secure the "full-on" treaty change he demanded in January, although British sources have said he might press for a legally binding protocol.

We expect the negotiations to take place in 2015 and 2016 so they finish well ahead of the French presidential elections [in the spring of 2017] and the German federal elections [in September 2017]." The newly installed government expects that the negotiations would lead to a legally binding protocol encompassing the UK's demands.

Currently, a legally binding protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) is being negotiated within the CBD without adequate involvement of the academic community.

The EU pushed strongly for a single protocol approach, in which the content of the 'Ad-hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action' (AWG-LCA) and the 'Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol' (AWG-KP) would merge towards one legally binding protocol.

11. (U) Finally, the United States continues to work towards a legally-binding Protocol on cluster munitions within the framework of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW).

But the flexibility of the bubble was for Europe alone: everyone else would have to accept a single target.For the Europeans, a legally binding emissions protocol was seen as a nifty way of nobbling the pesky Americans and hard-working Japanese.

While this approach was taken up in a report by the World Health Organisation [61] and in a technical risk assessment guidelines of the Codex Alimentarius Commission [62], it failed to become recognized in the more general Codex Alimentarius Commission Principles 44 2003 [63] or in the international legally binding Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety [64].

It has additionally signed up to the legally binding Kyoto Protocol, which requires a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 12.5% of 1990 levels by 2008 12 and a reduction of CO2 emissions by 20% of 1990 levels by 2010.

Two years ago, countries did not specify precisely how a new deal would be legally binding, allowing for a "protocol, another legal instrument, or an agreed outcome with legal force".