non-obligatory

Finally, we would like genetic resources to be transferred to the non-obligatory part.

The sacrifices have been balanced out between the obligatory and non-obligatory expenditure.

The majority has approved a text far too general in scope on ending the difference between obligatory and non-obligatory tasks.

It is true that this must be compensated for by real rigour in other sectors of non-obligatory expenditure.

Islam also prescribed certain days for non-obligatory, voluntary fasting, such as:

Newfoundland Screech is used in a non-obligatory ceremony known as the "screech-in".

The opinion that Parliament will give - which is a non-obligatory opinion - is legally different.

In the Vaud cantonal school system, two years of non-obligatory pre-school are provided by the political districts.

It is 'a non-obligatory' ceremony, an unreal description to one of Leonard Cohen's background.

The legion, in biological classification, is a non-obligatory taxonomic rank within the Linnaean hierarchy.

Finally, I repeat that I am in favour of including the non-obligatory topics in the regulation.

An obvious precondition here is that spending under the Common Foreign and Security Policy should remain non-obligatory in future.

It was part of our arguments to protect the Community budget, particularly its non-obligatory expenditure from the risk of being called to pay default on loans.

These commitments then have to be met within a very strict financial framework, made up of non-obligatory expenditure, which we MEPs are asked to respect.

The education system in the Canton of Geneva allows young children to attend two years of non-obligatory Kindergarten.

At present the non-obligatory nature of sexual exchange in T. brucei means that the production of genetic hybrids is time consuming and laborious (35).

The non-obligatory symbol used in a mask work protection notice is Ⓜ (capital letter M enclosed in a circle.)

The Canton of Bern school system provides one year of non-obligatory kindergarten, followed by six years of primary school.

Regarding Annex II on non-obligatory impact assessments, we have seen the Council withdraw from the Commission's proposal.

I would like to point out, now that the Convention is under way, that the time has come to remove this absurd distinction between obligatory and non-obligatory spending.

In another sense, however, control is non-obligatory (or optional) because there is no control predicate present that necessitates that control occur.

There again, you will find that the Commission supports Parliament in defending the thesis that expenses on these kinds of joint actions should be considered as non-obligatory expenditure.

Mr President, it is after all three obligatory and two non-obligatory committees which play a role within the framework of comitology and the Common Fisheries Policy.

There is obligatory expenditure, where the Council has the last word, and there is non-obligatory expenditure where Parliament has the last word.

In addition to the areal correlations, there also seems to be at least one correlation with morphological typology: Isolating languages appear to favor no or non-obligatory plural marking.