The Inter-American Juridical Committee of the Organization of American States (OAS) has recently approved the “Guidelines on Binding and Non-Binding Agreements”.

The Guidelines offer a concrete and detailed set of definitions, understandings, and “best practices” for the OAS Member States (and others) to employ in pursuing different types of international agreements and engaging with the various actors – States, government agencies, and sub-national territorial units – who make them.

The Guidelines deal with matters related to these instruments regarding capacity, identification methods, procedures, and effects, and aim at an overall systematization of such complex legal field.

Guidelines on Binding and Non-Binding Agreements – Official Text