Proposals on legal characteristics of commitments, submitted by the Chairman, Mr. K. Drzewicki

A commitment has been expressed in a legal document, and we must ensure that it will be reflected in concrete action.

These commitments continue to serve as the extensive and fundamental legislative authority for the way forward.

Advocacy efforts have also resulted in commitments and laws to ban the practices.

However, political commitment required corresponding legal mechanisms.

(a) Ensuring implementation of relevant commitments already undertaken under international legal instruments

A promise was often ambiguous on that point or was in fact made with the clear intention of not producing legal effects.

The State party s pronounced commitment to ensuring equality before the law is especially noted.

These undertakings have been made in the context of the corresponding legally binding commitments by the nuclear weapon States to the pursuit of nuclear disarmament.

This commitment is implemented by the 1999 constitutional law on a nuclear free Austria and by corresponding laws and regulations.

These undertakings have been made in the context of the corresponding legally binding commitments by the nuclear weapon States to the pursuit of nuclear disarmament.

Last year, the state government delivered on its commitment to bring legal aid funding up to the national average.

It is understood that there is no question of enforcement of the pledge through legal action.

2. Notes that the States concerned have declared moratoriums on further testing and have said that they are willing to enter into legal commitments not to conduct any further nuclear tests, and reiterates the need for such legal commitments to be expressed in legal form by signing and ratifying the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

That is why the commitment of the League of Arab States within this framework is a legal and moral commitment which I reiterate before the Assembly.

The State apos s undertaking entails providing the population with judges, prosecutors, defence attorneys, police, teachers and doctors.

19. The commitment thus made is a guarantee for the legal protection of these rights.

The latter arise from legal commitments and involve close scrutiny of law, regulations and practice with regard to specific provisions of those treaties by independent expert panels.

France is fully committed to a fiscal consolidation effort that returns it to a balanced budget by 2017. This is not just a political commitment we have enshrined France s fiscal path in a law adopted in November.

On the lack of public knowledge about human rights and the law, the National Gender Policy has a special commitment to encourage women to be recruited in the legal profession.

I can't promise anything.

As stated above, a legal framework could include a set of legally binding commitments to be applied in conjunction with certain non binding elements.

The commitments under the Paris Declaration were not legally binding, and therefore depended on the political will of the signatories.

The Married Persons Equality Act makes eighteen (18) years the age of consent for entry into civil marriage for both sexes, and men and women are equal before the law.

The Convention contains clear, legally binding commitments, as well as provisions to ensure compliance.

During that meeting, Prime Minister Koštunica spoke of his full commitment to fulfilling Serbia's legal obligations.

Referring to the matter of promise, he said that the principle acta sunt servanda seemed to be the most exact description of its legal effects.

a mechanism to allow the regular review and strengthening of the commitments embodied in a protocol or other legal instrument

The Law Ministers expressed their collective commitment to work on both the domestic and international fronts to combat corruption.

The legislative assistance typically included advice on laws and legal infrastructure needed, training national drafters, preparing first drafts to speed up the legislative process and advocacy to secure adequate political commitment for adoption and application of the new laws.

(iv) Burkina Faso's bilateral commitments.

There must be commitment in return for commitment.

In spite of various international commitments and legal obligations, girls were treated as inferior to boys in many parts of the world.

Commitment IV. Commitment that there are no illegal security forces and clandestine structures regulation of the bearing of arms

quot Member States, individually and through international and regional organizations, taking actions subject to each State apos s own constitution and fundamental legal principles and adopted pursuant to national laws and procedures, commit themselves

They will be based on national and international legal commitments, but they will also be inspired by best practices observed in the field.

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64. The Special Rapporteur is pleased to note that Federation authorities have made a commitment to consider the draft laws prepared by OHR.

87. The Special Rapporteur urgently requests the international community to pursue its firm financial commitment in favour of the legal assistance programme.

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This is a shared responsibility, and member states have to play their part. Until laws adopted in Brussels are enacted in national law and properly enforced, they remain paper tigers, entirely without teeth.

But our commitment to reducing the amount of legislation must be matched by an equal commitment to making what we have really count. This is a shared responsibility, and member states have to play their part.

In reference to certain aspects of personal status laws, Israel has entered a reservation due to commitments to various religious communities in Israel.

In other areas, notably the legal system, there is a promising commitment by the executive.

They also said that judges occasionally failed to carry out the appropriate proceedings out of fear or on account of some sort of prior commitment (political or otherwise), so that the prosecutor apos s work was held up by delaying tactics.