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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 24/07/12 18:40, Norbert Bollow
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:20120724124012.3609cbb9@quill5.bollow.ch"
type="cite">I can assure you that ECTF is definitely meant as an
/input providing
process for policy making/, and that there is no intention to give
ECTF
authority to make actual policy decisions.</blockquote>
<br>
On the other hand, recommendations are decisions. They are just not
authoritative decisions. So I wouldn't get too hung up on this
point. The authority that the ECTF would draw would be from the
breadth and quality of participation in its processes, rather than
from its legal status. We both hope and expect that its
recommendations would carry enough weight to guide policy-makers at
various levels and through various mechanisms. In my piece that is
cited as a source for the ECTF, I've even suggested that the
governmental members of such a body could choose to "bless" any of
its recommendations as intergovernmental agreements. That is
probably far-fetched, but illustrates that there need not be such a
great divide between the "input providing process" and the "actual
policy decision".<br>
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