Quorum is the minimum participation threshold required for a Council meeting, decision, recommendation, or recorded output to proceed under the Council’s operating rules.
Because National Stewardship Councils may develop in stages, quorum should be defined according to the Council’s current activation level, role structure, participant count, and work type.
A practical quorum model may distinguish between:
informal formation discussions;
observer briefings;
workstream meetings;
sector platform sessions;
Council coordination meetings;
controlled sessions;
formal Council recommendations;
public-facing outputs;
role nominations;
Nexus Universe preparation submissions.
Quorum should not be treated as authority to approve finance, insurance, procurement, regulation, or public finance. Even when quorum is reached, Council outputs remain within GRA’s stewardship mandate.
For early-stage countries, quorum may be provisional until the National Desk and Council structure are more fully activated. Full National Desk activation often requires a stronger participation base, commonly around 30 qualified individual Council subscribers, plus record quality and operational readiness.
Quorum allows the Council to conduct its own work. It does not create external authority.
