The Code of Good Practice in Electoral Matters highlights that the stability of the law is crucial to the credibility of the electoral process. Therefore, it should be avoided that fundamental elements of electoral law – like the composition of election commissions, the electoral system and the drawing of constituency boundaries – are changed frequently or just before elections. According to the Venice Commission, changes to fundamental aspects of the election system should not take effect less than one year prior to an election (see CDL-AD(2002)023 rev2-cor, part II.2.d and Expl. Report, paras 63-65).