His Pure Theory of Law aims to describe law as binding norms while at the same time refusing, itself, to evaluate those norms.

He regarded the role of the church as even more important, since the government of the Weimar Republic - in his eyes - would no longer provide society with binding norms, so that this would be the task of the church.

The out-of-service criteria should establish binding norms for use by vehicle safety inspectors and other law enforcement officials to define certain conditions that pose an imminent hazard to safety and permit the inspector to order the driver and/or his CMV out of service.

As I see it, the directive on nuclear plant provides for nothing other than the control of the controllers, but it does not, unfortunately, put in place the uniformly rigorous, transparent and legally binding norms in the field of nuclear safety that Parliament has been demanding for years.

I fully support the rapporteur's proposals that maladministration should henceforth be interpreted more widely, so that in addition to illegal administrative acts and breaches of binding norms and principles, it would include incidents where administrative institutions have been negligent, acted non-transparently or broken other principles of good administration.