According to the Constitution,
a European regulation is a non-legislative act of general application for the implementation of legislative acts and of certain specific provisions of the Constitution.
It may also take the form of delegated European regulations or implementing regulations.
These regulations may be binding in their entirety or binding only as regards the result to be achieved.
Moreover, according to the new definition, a European decision includes both a decision addressed to specified recipients and a general decision, which is not the case under Article 249 of the EC Treaty,
according to which decisions are binding only on those to whom they are addressed.
Finally, non-legislative acts also include recommendations and opinions, which have no binding force.
The last paragraph of Article I-35 reaffirms the Commission's general power to adopt recommendations, as provided for in Article 211 of the EC Treaty, and extends it to the Council (Article I-35).