1.    Members who put a question to one of the Commissioners shall be chosen by means of a ballot system in the following way:

-    a ballot box shall be placed at the entrance to the Chamber one hour before the start of Question Time;

-    Members wishing to put a question write their name on a form and place it in the ballot box;

-    Members wishing to put a question may submit no more than one form;

-    the President opens Question Time and closes the ballot box;

-    the President draws one ballot at a time and calls on the chosen Member to put his or her question to the competent Commissioner.

2.    The Member shall be given one minute in which to formulate the question and the Commissioner two minutes in which to reply. That Member may put a supplementary question of 30 seconds duration, having a direct bearing on the main question. The Commissioner shall then be given two minutes in which to give a supplementary reply.

3.    Questions and supplementary questions must be directly related to the specific horizontal theme chosen. The President may rule on the admissibility.