"valor vinculante" in English

Firstly, the directive is strictly binding in legislative terms.

The Nice Summit then adopted a European Social Agenda, but this document has no binding power.

That would be an interim solution which would make it possible to work towards a binding Charter in the long term.

I, for my part, have never supported this idea and today it seems that its adoption would not have any binding legal value.

I further note that there appears to be no clear majority within the European Council in favour of granting it a binding status.

It is regrettable, however, that it is a report of initiative which has no binding power, but we must be glad for what we have.

Fourth and last, there should be a more binding obligation to carry out an environmental impact study, not just a formal one as at present.

We might even describe the incorporation of the Charter into the Treaties and recognition of its binding legal status as a two-step process.

Is it any wonder that these heads of governments refuse to submit to the regime prescribed by the Charter, and make it legally binding?

I would, however, like to say to MrKronberger that we should obviously not prescribe any binding limit values that fall below background concentration levels.

When the Treaty of Amsterdam comes into force and places obligations on the Union in this area too, we must be ready and willing to commit much larger sums in the future.