0 not legally necessary to obey or follow:
a non-binding resolution/referendum/recommendation
The committee's vote is non-binding.
1 a non-binding agreement, decision, etc. has no legal power:
They have won a non-binding vote of the company's shareholders.
Soft law instruments and norms are thus understood as non-binding in international law but binding in some other manner, for instance, politically.
In a wider understanding, regulatory cooperation might also include non-binding agreements and all kinds of voluntary activities of international organizations.
In a non-binding form, the guidelines' contribution to maritime safety in ice-covered waters seems rather limited.
Although non-binding, the recommendation called upon member states to address the issue of drinking among youths, also in relation to drunk driving by young people.
But its roles are mainly to provide advice and help to establish non-binding norms, a form of soft law.
By non-binding we refer to the pattern documented below that banks systematically and significantly over-comply with regulatory requirements.
The parliament has not been involved in fourteen out of the 158 laws and it has issued merely a non-binding opinion in 131 acts.
Furthermore, the perceived softness or non-binding nature of the instrument sometimes allows the parties to move into more detailed regulation in a speedier fashion.
