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Like most of these international committees, I believe they mostly facilitate agreements between sovereign states; I don't believe they have any legislative power themselves.

Maybe an analogy would be ICAO's (another "specialized agency of the UN") "Freedoms of the Air" [1] – they define the terminology, but it's still up to individual (or blocs of) nation states to actually grant them to each other, ratify recommendations etc.

[1] https://www.icao.int/pages/freedomsair.aspx



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