Robert’s Rules of Order will apply in limited situations as follows: 

1. Only the business contained in the call to the meeting can be taken up. 
2. The provisions of the call, specifying the meeting’s purpose and those invited to attend it, have a force equivalent to bylaws of an organized society; that is, they define the subject matter within which motions are in order, and determine who has the right to participate as members. 
3. The State Party has the sole right to set the agenda and the business to be conducted. 
4. The State Party shall select the criteria for the meetings and create the rules.
5. The State Party documents define who can be a participant. 
6. Other rules are seldom necessary unless it is desirable to modify the general rules as to allowable length and number of speeches.
7. Any person at a mass meeting who, after being advised, persists in an obvious attempt to divert the meeting to a different purpose from that for which it was called, or who otherwise tries to disrupt the proceedings, becomes subject to the disciplinary procedure. 
8. The participants have the right to conduct the business. 
9. The purpose of the meeting shall be read to all participants. 
10. Only motions that pertain to the purpose of the meeting are in order.
11. There is no appeal from the ruling of the chair’s decision in assigning the floor.
12. Debate follows the general rules of parliamentary law. 
13. No one can speak on an issue more than once until all others have had an opportunity to speak. 
14. A motion to Adjourn is out of order while business is pending. 
15. When the business for which the meeting was called has apparently been completed and no question is pending, a motion to adjourn is in order.