MCC-001 Charter and Constitution — Amendment 1: governance architecture and host-country rule (v2.0 → v2.1)
MCC-001 Charter and Constitution v2.0 → v2.1 (Amendment 1)
Stayed. This amendment revises the governance architecture and host-country rule in MCC-001 v2.0. Founder decision FD-2026-09-03 replaces MCC-001 v2.0 with MCC-001 v3.0-draft, in which the legal entity holds no decision authority and seven governance bodies replace the former role catalogue — the same subject matter, decided differently. A Tier 1 instrument carries a 90-day notice period, and the successor text will serve its own in full; nothing is shortened by this stay.
Stayed 3 September 2026. A stay is not a decision: the proposal is neither adopted nor rejected, and the text below stands published under its SHA-256 exactly as it was consulted on. Whether it resumes against the successor instrument or is withdrawn is for the Governing Board. The revised suite is described at the document register.
What is being consulted on
Makes MCC-700 the sole governance architecture (new cl. 0044a), replaces the conflicting decision rule in cl. 0044 with two-thirds of votes cast and quorum of more than half, carries the host-country rule of FD-2026-08-24 item D8 into cl. 0034 and 0061 (authorisation required only for corresponding adjustments and compliance use; contribution-basis units record NOT_APPLICABLE), and gives the three retired foundational documents historical status.
- Decision by
- Governing Board — intention resolution GB-2026-001 (26 August 2026, Resolution 3.1); enters into force at the end of the 90-day notice under Charter cl. 0079 unless the Board resolves otherwise on the comments received
- What happens now
- Nothing further happens on this consultation until the Governing Board decides whether it resumes against the successor instrument or is withdrawn. Comments received before the stay, if any, stay on the record below and are carried into that decision.
- Proposal SHA-256
f1ba8c060b1582bc2648422743716386f15c2e12e1eec2a100acf51aa6953d95- Source file
- MCC-001_Charter_Amendment1_Governance_v0.2_DRAFT_EN.md
Correction notice, 7 September 2026 — read this before the status line below. The status line of this proposal states that it “enter[s] into force at the end of the notice period unless the Board resolves otherwise on the basis of comments received”. The 90-day Tier 1 notice began on 27 August 2026 and expires on 25 November 2026. (Corrected 7 September 2026: this notice first gave 24 November, computed from the 26 August publication date printed on the proposal itself. The consultation register records the opening as 27 August, and the register is the operative record of the consultation. The one-day conflict between the two programme records, on a Tier 1 notice period, is referred to the Board with everything else below.) This consultation was stayed on 3 September under FD-2026-09-03 item D8, so only 8 of the 90 days accepted comment — and a stay stops the inflow of comment; no instrument in this Programme tolls a notice period. Read literally, that sentence says a constitutional amendment commences by default in eleven weeks unless someone stops it. It cannot, and the Programme states the reasons here because none of them has been stated before. First, the Charter's own procedure forbids it: cl. 0093 requires an affirmative supermajority vote and cl. 0095 requires an effective date specified in the amendment resolution, no less than thirty days after approval. There is no resolution, no vote and no specified date, and cl. 0097 provides that the procedure “shall not be bypassed or abbreviated”. Second, MCC-001 is Tier 1 and cl. 0084 resolves any conflict in favour of the higher tier; the status line of a draft proposal is not a tier. Third, cl. 0091 requires at least one public stakeholder forum during a Tier 1 consultation, and nothing in the programme record shows that one was held. Fourth, the amendment fixes its own commencement “on the same day as MCC-700 Amendment 1”, whose own limb A1.9 fixes its commencement as not before this amendment enters into force — the two are locked to each other, and MCC-WDR-2026-002 withdraws one of them. The first three reasons stand whatever the Board decides; the fourth is completed by that withdrawal and is stated as such rather than counted as a pre-existing ground. Nothing in this proposal will enter into force by the passage of time. The text is unchanged because it is under consultation and its SHA-256 is the text the public was asked to comment on; changing it after the question is put would change the question. MCC-WDR-2026-002 withdraws limbs A1.1 to A1.3 and does not withdraw limb A1.4, which gives effect to a founder decision no instrument has executed and which five drafts depend on; A1.4 is referred with a named instrument and the same deadline. Withdrawing A1.2 does not repeal the governance thresholds it would have enacted. Two-thirds of votes cast and a quorum of 50% + 1 are adopted by founder decision FD-2026-08-24 item D11 in terms and recorded in the in-force MCC-100 Annex — Definitions Register; they have been in force since 24 August 2026 and are unaffected by this withdrawal. Constitutional amendments are a separate matter and the Programme corrects its own position on them. The Definitions Register states “⅔ av fulltallig styre” — two-thirds of the full board. The Charter in force states, at cl. 0093, “at least two-thirds of Board members present and voting”, and MCC-001 v3.0-draft cl. 13.6 says the same. The Register is an annex at Tier 3 and cl. 0084 resolves conflict in favour of the higher tier, and the full-board limb does not appear in FD-2026-08-24’s own record of item D11, which reads only “⅔ av avgitte stemmer; quorum 50 % + 1”. Cl. 0093 governs, the Register’s constitutional limb is referred to the Governing Board by MCC-WDR-2026-002, and no decision already taken is disturbed, because anything that met the stricter formula meets cl. 0093 too. If the Board resolves to resume rather than dispose, the notice period must be re-run and not resumed, because cl. 0090’s ninety days is a period of circulation for comment and only eight of them were live.
The proposal text below is unchanged and its hash is the one published at opening. A consultation asks the public to comment on particular bytes; editing them after the question is put would change the question. The correction is served here instead, and the text is corrected at adoption.
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MCC-001 Charter and Constitution — Amendment 1: Governance Architecture and Host-Country Rule (v2.0 → v2.1)
Instrument: Amendment to MCC-001 Charter and Constitution v2.0 (Tier 1; cl. 0079: supermajority with documented stakeholder consultation and ninety (90) days' public notice; cl. 0095: entry into force no earlier than 30 days after adoption) Status: v0.2 DRAFT 26 August 2026 — NOT ADOPTED. Resolved as an intention by the Governing Board at its constituting meeting of 26 August 2026 (GB-2026-001, Resolution 3.1) and published the same day as the start of the 90-day notice under cl. 0079. Enters into force at the end of the notice period unless the Board resolves otherwise on the basis of comments received. The English text of the amendments is authoritative; the Norwegian working draft of 24 August 2026 is superseded. Basis: FD-2026-08-24 items D8, D11, D15; rulebook audit of 24 August 2026 (K2); MCC-700 Governance and Appeals v3.1 and Amendment 1 (consulted in parallel, 60 days, cl. 0080)
Background
The rulebook audit of 24 August 2026 found four governance architectures in circulation, with the Board's decision threshold stated both as two-thirds and as unanimity, and quorum stated both as 50 % + 1 and as two-thirds. FD-2026-08-24 item D11 designates MCC-700 as the programme's sole governance architecture. This amendment brings the Charter into line, and carries the host-country rule of item D8 into the two Charter clauses that still state an absolute authorisation requirement.
Amendments
A1.1 — New clause 0044a. "Programme governance, decision thresholds, quorum, appeals and delegation are governed exclusively by MCC-700 Governance and Appeals (current adopted version). Where any other programme document states a different governance rule, MCC-700 prevails."
A1.2 — Clause 0044 is replaced by: "Board decisions require a two-thirds majority of votes cast. Amendments to this Charter and to the MCC-100 series require a two-thirds majority of all Board members. The Board is quorate when more than half of its members participate." (Replaces "consensus or documented supermajority approval", which conflicted with MCC-700.)
A1.3 — Host country (item D8), clauses 0034 and 0061. The absolute requirement in cl. 0034 (Fundamental Principles: "No MCC credit shall be issued … unless the host country has provided authorisation or documented non-objection") and in cl. 0061 (Programme Commitments: "No credit shall be issued without evidence of host country engagement and authorisation") — both verified against Charter v2.0 on 25 August 2026 — is replaced in both clauses by: "Host country authorisation is required where a corresponding adjustment is sought or credits are to be used in compliance schemes. For contribution-basis units carrying no climate claim, documented host country engagement and notification is required, and authorisation status is recorded as NOT_APPLICABLE."
A1.4 — Normative order (item D15). Foundational Decisions v1.0, Programme Bible v2.0 and Ten Operational Umbrella Methodologies v1.0 have the status HISTORICAL and no normative effect.
Transitional note
Until this amendment enters into force, MCC-700 governs everything the Charter does not expressly regulate (FD-2026-08-24 D11; GB-2026-001). The conflicts found in the audit arose mainly from the documents retired under item D15, not from the Charter itself.
Entry into force
Intention resolution: GB-2026-001, 26 August 2026. Public notice published: on signature of GB-2026-001. In force: at the end of the 90-day notice period, on the same day as MCC-700 Amendment 1. Consolidated as MCC-001 v2.1.
Consultation questions
- Does the two-thirds-of-all-members threshold for Charter and MCC-100-series amendments (A1.2) give sufficient protection while the Board is below its eleven-member target (MCC-700 §4.1.5 as amended)?
- Should A1.3 name the recording standard for "documented host country engagement" (MCC-100 cl. 0102–0122) in the Charter itself?
Change log — v0.1 (24 Aug 2026, Norwegian working draft) · v0.2 (26 Aug 2026): English public text; BDR references removed (annulled under D16); intention-resolution and notice dates tied to GB-2026-001.
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This consultation was stayed on 3 September 2026 and does not accept submissions. It has not been decided, so no closing protocol is owed; the reason for the stay is above.