Any document(s) that a task group believes is mature enough for committee approval will be submitted to the working group chair who will review it before passing it to the committee chair. The committee chair and working group chair will determine whether to send the document(s) to participants for silent approval for a discretionary period of time of not less than 3 calender days, or to send the document back to the task group. If submitted for silent approval and no substantial comments are received then the document(s) will be considered as approved. Comment(s) received will be handled at the discretion of the committee chair, working group chair and task group leader. Depending on the nature of the comment(s) received, the document(s) may be:
• offered for a further period of silent approval, the length of which will be decided by the committee chair; or
• returned to the relevant task group for further consideration. Task groups may submit documents to the approval process at any time during the committee working period. Any documents for approval must complete this process by the day before the closing plenary.