If the Council changes its Rules it will also be important to establish clearly how public meetings of the Council when legislating should work in practice and which issues should be discussed in the Council's public meetings, so as to prevent the real debate being transferred to informal meetings, the COREPER or even upward to the European Council, with the public meeting doing nothing more than rubber-stamp decisions already taken.
If the Council changes its Rules it will also be important to establish clearly how public meetings of the Council when legislating should work in practice and which issues should be discussed in the Council's public meetings, so as to prevent the real debate being transferred to informal meetings, the COREPER or even upward to the European Council, with the public meeting doing nothing more than rubber-stamp decisions already taken.