[governance] ECTF (was Re: Aspen)

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 24/07/12 18:40, Norbert Bollow wrote:
> 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.

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".

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