Aide-mémoire

Non-Paper (English for "non- paper " ) or unofficial working paper is called a record that is not binding formal or legal status. Although a non-paper is not to go down as a formal document in the file, it can exert a real effect; their official " non-existence " is thus a legal fiction.

Politics and diplomacy

A non-paper or unofficial working document is not an officially legitimized form of a written document is a diplomat or a delegation that is handed over to the representatives of another country or an international organization. It carries no official letterhead, no stamp and no signature. This is different from the memorandum, which also has no legal effect, but calls its author.

Often a non-paper forms work and a basis for discussion on how to write an official written document in international bodies. It opens up the opportunity to bring a proposal in a discussion or negotiation, to which you do not even want to officially commit or can. In case of rejection you are no nakedness and holds the possibility of changes in position open. Often demarches by the transfer of a non-paper to support that summarizes the presented position.

Business

The term non-paper is increasingly being used in companies and national organizations. In contrast to legally binding documents a non-paper is sent Unregistered or without a request for acknowledgment of receipt, for example:

• If the author is in order, the responsibility for the content but not want to take over,
• To identify the document as a non-binding approach, or
• In order to give the receiver the possibility to ignore the document. Only through an answer then raises the receiver the non-paper to a recognized document.

• International law