According to the CoR Rules of Procedure, the Conference of Presidents (CoP), should have been consulted and the Bureau should have decided in December 2015 on guidelines for the 2017 Draft Budget.
V skladu s poslovnikom OR bi se bilo treba decembra 2015 s konferenco predsednikov posvetovati o smernicah za predlog proračuna za leto 2017, predsedstvo pa bi moralo o njih odločati.