That is the problem with this, because it has no binding mandate.

It does not create any binding mandate either upon the company you buy from or upon other consumers.

We must not allowed ourselves to be restricted by financial dependency or to be given a binding mandate.

Rule 2 of our Rules of Procedure states that we shall not be bound by any instructions and shall not receive a binding mandate.

The resolution on which we shall be voting tomorrow is certainly not intended to give a binding mandate to our fellow Members, myself included, in the context of the convention, since we have already commenced work.

It is a symbolic summation of the will to and purpose of statehood, a declaration of intent by the popular Sovereign, an integrating avowal of the Swiss people's fundamental values, and a binding mandate to the State's authorities.

Can you perhaps confirm, Mr President, that under Rule 2, no member may receive a binding mandate, and further that it is certainly not incumbent on the chairman of any Committee to receive a mandate from any government - be it Edinburgh, London, Madrid or wherever.