Sentences with phrase «legal treaty»
A "legal treaty" is an official agreement or contract between two or more countries or entities. It states the terms and conditions that need to be followed, often in areas like trade, politics, or law. It is like a promise that both parties agree to and must abide by. Full definition
A great deal can be done on every core issue of the negotiation even before an ultimate legal treaty is signed.
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Renegotiation of legal treaties between the UK and twenty - seven other states will also have destabilising implications for firms; there will be prolonged uncertainty about their access to cross channel markets, rules of industrial competition, and numerous important details, such as the safety of food, transport, or medicine.
What we do not want is a partial legal treaty in Copenhagen.
23 of the EU member states agreed at a marathon overnight session to sign up to a host of measures to contain the euro crisis through a new legal treaty committing to greater budgetary discipline including balanced budgets, quasi-automatic sanctions and a strong interventionist role for the European Commission.
So my take - home message from the Cartagena Dialogue meeting was that we should redouble efforts to secure a worldwide legal treaty on climate — but that we should not wait for it to be signed before we get on with the serious business of decarbonising our economies.
We can also hope that some of the efforts that have been directed at enforcing legal treaties that the Crown ratified years ago will go some way to reversing some of the compounded damage inflicted on aboriginal communities as a result of non-compliance.
There's Kyoto parties sign a new legal treaty, which is not what we'd like, and there's the middle way, which is that Kyoto carries on in some sense.
What we would be worried about is the Kyoto parties signing a legal treaty in Copenhagen, because we think it takes the pressure off everyone else to have a legal treaty eventually.
The other danger, which I think is a very legitimate view of developing countries, is that you somehow end the Kyoto track without a legal treaty to replace it.
From our point of view, we would be very reluctant to sign up to a legal treaty now which only includes the Kyoto parties, because then we are forgoing the opportunity of a single legal treaty.
No legal treaty, no Kyoto Protocol, no nothing.
It stops short of a legal treaty, but commits all countries to cutting emissions for the first time under the UN.
The world now has a year to resolve any outstanding issues over the final form of a legal treaty that commits the world to binding targets.
It is hoped that eventually the Kyoto Protocol will be continued as part of a legal treaty that commits all countries to cutting emissions.
All of the precedents, legal treaties, police paperwork etc, refer to motor vehicle accidents or MVAs.