The measures are law within the jurisdiction that made them, and their application to the succession of particular lineages is contested outside it.
The most consequential precedent predates the order. In 1995 the Dalai Lama recognised a boy as the eleventh Panchen Lama; the Chinese authorities rejected the recognition, the child and his family were taken into custody, and a different boy was installed following a golden urn procedure. The recognised child has not been seen publicly since, and the two claimants to the office have coexisted for three decades. The 2007 measures put that procedure on a general legal footing.
The Dalai Lama has stated on several occasions that the question of whether the institution continues, and by what method a successor would be identified, rests with him and with the Tibetan people, and he has said that any candidate chosen for political ends should not be recognised. The Chinese authorities maintain that the succession requires their approval under the order and under Qing precedent.
There is no shared forum. One party holds the territory, the monasteries and the registration power; the other holds the lineage authority recognised by most Tibetan Buddhists outside that territory. The atlas records the instrument, its terms and its date, notes that its authority over particular lineages is disputed, and does not adjudicate a live question about a living person's office.