legal measures definition
legal measures means any legal instrument that contains or establishes obligations, requirements or prohibitions, according to the law of the relevant jurisdiction. Examples of such instruments include, but are not limited to acts, laws, regulations and administrative or executive orders;
legal measures are one means of achieving enduring, rather than short-term, conservation outcomes, but in some cases ‘other means’ such as planning processes or other non-regulatory options may also achieve the same enduring