There are no international standards that recommend any particular ratio of parliamentary seats to the size of population. –The amendment is however aimed to a better application of parliamentary procedures, allowing for all Members of Parliament to have more time to present in the sessions of the parliament - apart from reducing difficulties in planning the expenditures from the federal budget, the logistics and sufficient rooms and supporting personnel, which are not the essential elements of the debate. A large number of Members of Parliament makes the co-operation between them more time-consuming and thus renders more difficulty to find time for the interaction with other state institutions or voters. The Venice Commission and ODIHR are not in a position to assess whether the reduction of seats would improve the functioning of Parliament, an issue belonging to the appreciation of the national authorities. It should however be underlined that it is very rare that there is no limit to the number of seats in a Parliament. Simplifying the electoral system by setting a fix number of seats has also the potential to contribute to a better understanding of the electoral process by the public, which may contribute to the legitimacy of the electoral outcome in a broad sense. The amendments further help avoiding inequalities between the Länder which could result in their different number of overhang – and compensatory - mandates. In conclusion, the reduction of the number of seats (or rather the impossibility to increase their number according to election results) is in practice rather limited and does not go against any standard (the number of seats is fixed at 630), and the introduction of a fixed number of seats is welcome.