17 (1) The Board shall establish a schedule of its regular meetings and shall send without delay a copy of the resolution fixing the day, time and place of the regular meetings to each director.

The Clerk: Eight meetings represents the maximum number of meetings available if the committee meets at its regular meeting times during March.

Since the EP has exhausted its manoeuvrability to improve its inner workings and calendar within the current legal framework, the rapporteurs suggest to initiate an ordinary treaty revision procedure under Article 48 TEU to amend Article 341 and Protocol 6, in order to grant parliament the right to autonomously decide on its internal organisation, calendar, and hence the question of its seat.

D. whereas, as the Venice Commission has regretted, the ‘constitution-making process, including the drafting and the final adoption of the new Constitution, has been affected by a lack of transparency, shortcomings in the dialogue between the majority and the opposition, the insufficient opportunities for an adequate public debate, and a very tight timeframe‘and that the constitution is ‘a commonly accepted framework for ordinary democratic processes (which is) a precondition for fully successful and legitimate constitution-making process’ that ‘should be based on the largest consensus possible within the Hungarian society’,

C. whereas, as the Venice Commission has regretted, the ‘constitution-making process, including the drafting and the final adoption of the new Constitution, has been affected by a lack of transparency, shortcomings in the dialogue between the majority and the opposition, the insufficient opportunities for an adequate public debate, and a very tight timeframe’ and that the constitution is ‘a commonly accepted framework for ordinary democratic processes (which is) a precondition for fully successful and legitimate constitution-making process’ that ‘should be based on the largest consensus possible within the Hungarian society’,

We were well ahead of the schedule with the highest requirement in the country, which is 80 per cent of money raised being invested directly into equity and small or mid-sized businesses.