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All countries should accept the safety standards and regular peer-review missions, which, ideally, should be made
binding.
After all, there is the legally
binding
1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which has been ratified by 166 states and the European Union.
We are also proposing that an international convention be adopted to establish liability and compensation for both economic losses and ecological damage caused by offshore oil and gas exploration and production, which should also always be subject to legally
binding
safety protocols.
Unless we respond with strong governance and the necessary tools to enforce regulations, ruthless pirate fishing will continue with impunity, there will be no
binding
international safety standards for deep sea oil and gas drilling, and plastic pollution and abandoned fishing gear will continue to proliferate.
But this is the wrong way to go, for it might serve only to erode one of the few effective mechanisms in place to make multilateral agreements
binding.
Third, world leaders should vow to remove all obstacles to a legally
binding
universal agreement at the global climate conference in Paris in December 2015.
A new, legally
binding
agreement – not a change to the Lisbon Treaty (which would encounter too many hurdles), but a new agreement – will be needed for the eurozone to mobilize that power, and such an accord will take time to negotiate and ratify.
The international legal gold standard is a treaty, a
binding
document that can be enforced by courts and arbitration tribunals.
In the United States, as a matter of domestic law, it is an executive agreement,
binding
only on President Barack Obama’s administration.
An executive agreement made by one administration is not necessarily
binding
on its successor, but it would have to be explicitly repudiated.
For starters, tackling a problem as complex and fast-moving as climate change would be impossible with permanent,
binding
commitments.
Political declarations on the issues outlined would be registered as international treaties at the United Nations to provide
binding
legal force.
Treaties are more
binding
than national legislation, because they are more difficult to revoke, amend, or repeal.
Such arrangements will often be ad hoc and flexible, rather than traditional
binding
deals, and will almost never be comprehensive.
Decades later, the European Union still needs the
binding
power and legitimacy of its constituent nations, as well as of historical regional political structures within those nations, because a common European identity is emerging only slowly and cannot yet justify a unitary constitutional structure.
The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights will become legally
binding
and the judicial protection of citizens will be enhanced by facilitating their access to the European Court of Justice and by extending the Court’s jurisdiction.
Violations of these commitments would have subjected signatories to
binding
arbitration.
Their recommendations should be binding, but they should also be focused on the medium term, rather than on annual fiscal outcomes.
In a few cases, fiscal councils might impose conditions that are even more stringent than current EU rules stipulate, but they would be limited to enforcing the structural balance that each signatory of the fiscal compact has enshrined in its constitution or in equally
binding
legislation.
The EU’s recent Treaty on Fiscal Union – the successor to the Growth and Stability Pact – prescribes
binding
legal commitments to balanced budgets and modest national debt, backed by supervision and sanctions.
From China’s perspective, no treaty has
binding
force once it has served its immediate purpose, as officials recently demonstrated by trashing the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration that paved the way for Hong Kong’s handover in 1997.
When defined well, including by specifying a short period for the prospective shift to being fully operational, such programs can serve as a catalyst and conduit for relaxing a
binding
constraint on growth and financial viability.
A private tribunal would hear cases and issue
binding
rulings, with no possibility of appeal to any court or other democratically accountable authority.
When countries believe that high emissions levels are necessary to economic growth, they naturally become reluctant to agree to any
binding
protocol that would curtail emissions and thus stifle growth.
Strong legislatures, while not a sufficient condition for securing
binding
global agreements, are certainlynecessary for that purpose.
The irony of most internationally
binding
agreements is that they are not actually
binding.
Above all, they want the US to sign a legally
binding
agreement affirming that US BMD will never threaten Russia’s strategic deterrent.
Although constraining future US BMD programs with legally
binding
agreements is politically untenable, US officials could inform their Russian counterparts of their long-range BMD plans without much difficulty.
Russian officials need to retreat from their politically impossible demand for legally
binding
limitations on US BMD.
But the law would make surrogacy contracts legally binding, requiring the mother to give up the baby even if she changes her mind.
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