formal error

It appears that, because of a formal error, the actual decision has not yet been taken.

Because of a formal error, the results of the municipal elections of May 2008 are invalid.

As in 1994, the Court again found that formal errors relating to the legality and regularity of payments were occurring far too frequently.

Any formal error or logical fallacy similarly invalidates the deductive guarantee.

These may be formal errors in the law-making process or violations of the Basic Law inherent to the new law.

Formal errors like these generally underestimate the true uncertainty, since they do not take into account all sources of error, like biases in simulated atmospheric transport.

Mr President, chairman of the Committee on Budgetary Control, my committee has also debated the matter of how we can guarantee to avoid committing formal errors.

In order to take some of the sting out of administrative decisions, the Commission should give applicants the opportunity to correct formal errors within a set period from submitting the application.

Only serious formal errors and errors with financial consequences, inflated expenditure claims, ineligible beneficiaries and expenditure form the basis of the Court's Statement of Assurance.

There is no evidence that fraud is on the increase, but regrettably there is a continuing problem with formal errors and irregularities, for example regarding funding qualifications and the submission of receipts.

I do not know the reasons for this decision of the Commission, but even if it was because of formal errors made by the Polish Government, bureaucratic procedures should not bring living people and their situation to ruin.

In the field of formal errors, our opinion is also that there are far too many, but for us formal errors are those that do not have a recognizably adverse effect on the budget.

She led a centre-right coalition, which was however reduced when its main party, the People of Freedom led by Berlusconi, was excluded from elections in the Province of Rome for some formal errors [1].

My personal objective and the Commission's objective is to improve financial management, to reduce fraud, to avoid errors, be they purely formal errors or errors with budgetary implications, and also to improve efficiency and ensure that public funds are used more effectively.

Various material and formal errors are made in compiling applications for aid, but unquestionably the greatest and most sinister error is the one committed by Member States in obstructing the desire of the regions and counties for political and administrative decentralization.

My sense of justice has led me to agree to this matter being referred back, since if, in a committee, only eight people vote and certain groups are not represented at all, I think it would be fairer and better to avoid a formal error and send the matter back.