But, in many agreements, the calendars for many are poorly designed, based solely on both parents' efforts to control their child's plans rather as a contractual stipulation in time sharing than a child's necessary downtime to chill from a hectic and draining school year.
The idea is to hand back to member states the primary responsibility for clearing many agreements between firms that might possibly violate EU antitrust laws.
Most agreements require that airlines operating the same routes consult among themselves before submitting their fares to the two governments concerned for approval, and many agreements specify the International Air Transport Association (IATA), an association of airlines, as the organ for such consultations.
And, he said, many, many agreements.
Many social housing tenancy agreements, for example, still prohibit running a business from home.
"Like all systems, it has advantages and disadvantages," said Martin Leutz, a spokesman for Gesamtmetall, an industry association that negotiates wage agreements for many German manufacturers, including Volkswagen.
And waltzing down an aisle need not be one of them: many lawyers write these agreements for unmarried people who live together.
Sometimes the IT department has a legitimate problem with shadow forces: The service level agreements for many of these "as-a-service" offerings contain thorny issues around who owns what and provide no guarantees of uptime or availability.
"Many collaboration agreements allow for a short delay on publication to protect intellectual property, so patents or copyrights can be applied for," she said.
Many times, they end in plea agreements for reduced sentences, calling into question the laws' purpose, he said.
