Article 29
Meetings

(1) Meetings of the Administrative Council shall be convened by its Chairman. 

(2) The President of the European Patent Office shall take part in the deliberations of the Administrative Council. 

(3) The Administrative Council shall hold an ordinary meeting once each year. In addition, it shall meet on the initiative of its Chairman or at the request of one-third of the Contracting States. 

(4) The deliberations of the Administrative Council shall be based on an agenda, and shall be held in accordance with its Rules of Procedure. 

(5) The provisional agenda shall contain any question whose inclusion is requested by any Contracting State in accordance with the Rules of Procedure.