Who can change what
Every instrument the programme serves sits in a tier, and each tier has an amendment procedure set by the Charter at MCC-001 cll. 0079–0083. This page states each procedure and then asks a question the corpus does not ask itself: does the body that clause names actually exist?
1 of 5 tiers cannot be amended by anyone today
Tier 4 — Technical Standards (MCC-200 Methodology Framework and the individual methodologies). MCC-001 v2.0 cl. 0082 reserves this to the methodology review committee. That body exists and has no serving appointee.
| Tier | What it covers | Who approves | Notice | Extra | Available |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Constitutional | MCC-001 Charter and Constitution | governing board MCC-001 v2.0 cl. 0079 | 90 days | — | yes |
| 2 Governance | MCC-700 Governance and Appeals | governing board MCC-001 v2.0 cl. 0080 | 60 days | — | yes |
| 3 Programme Rules | MCC-100 series, including its annexes and the Definitions Register | governing board · or delegated committee MCC-001 v2.0 cl. 0081 | 30 days | — | yes |
| 4 Technical Standards | MCC-200 Methodology Framework and the individual methodologies | methodology review committee · or Standards Committee MCC-001 v2.0 cl. 0082 | 30 days | peer review | no |
| 5 Operational Policies | Cross-cutting frameworks, operational procedures and templates | operational team MCC-001 v2.0 cl. 0083 | 14 days | — | yes |
Tier 1. Supermajority Board approval with documented stakeholder consultation. The only tier requiring a supermajority.
Tier 3. The clause reads "Board OR delegated committee", which is disjunctive: an unconstituted committee does not block this tier, because the Board is an alternative approver and the Board has appointees. This is the tier the family taxonomy sits in.
Tier 4. The only tier requiring peer review, and the requirement governs its own removal. The approving body is named only in the Tier 1 instrument and appears in the Programme register under neither name.
Tier 5. Operational team approval with Board oversight. The only tier that does not require stakeholder consultation on the face of cl. 0083.
Where MCC-001 and MCC-700 name different bodies for the same function, the column above gives MCC-001’s name first, because MCC-001 cl. 0084 provides that the higher tier prevails. Both names, and the name the platform register uses, are recorded in the code register.