"meramente formal" in English

I think this is just a formality and certainly not a question of any substance.

This involves a number of minor changes of a purely formal and linguistic nature.

In some countries, however, implementation has been slow and even formal.

We need to ensure that democratic procedures do not have a merely formal or symbolic meaning.

This externalisation, however, needs to be supervised more actively, more coherently and not in a way that merely goes through the motions.

If that is the case, maintaining a single motion would be a mere formality, in which case I withdraw our group's motion for a resolution.

The first is purely formal.

Unless the state plays an active and not just a formal role, this problem will remain truly intractable and the petitions from defrauded victims will accumulate.

I am thinking particularly of respect for the principle of double jeopardy, of the right to a genuine, rather than a merely formal, defence and, indeed, of victims' rights.