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Recommendations are without Legal Force but are negotiated and voted on according to the Appropriate Procedure . Recommedations differ from Regulation s, Directive s and Decision s, in that they are not binding for Member States. Though without legal force, they do have a political weight. The Recommendation is an instrument of indirect action aiming at preparation of legislation in Member States, differing from the Directive only by the absence of obligatory power.


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According to the terms of the Treaty On The European Union "In order to ensure the proper functioning and development of the common market, the Commission (…) formulate recommendations or deliver Opinions on matters dealt with in this Treaty, if it expressivly so provides or if the Commission considers it necessary."

Concretely, recommendations can be used by the Commission to raze barriers of competition caused by the establishment or the modification of internal norms of a Member State . If a country does not conform to a recommendation, the Commission cannot propose the adoption of a Directive aimed at other Member Countries, in order to elide this distortion.


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