The rule change work plan guides the Rules Change Panel (RCP) and EMC in determining which market development issues to address as a matter of priority.

To ensure that the work plan continues to reflect the most relevant issues and the views of stakeholders over time, EMC periodically conducts a prioritisation exercise. The prioritisation exercise involves:

• providing stakeholders with an update on the issues that remain in the old workplan,
• inviting stakeholders to identify any additional issues they would like the RCP to address and
• discussing the resulting list of issues with stakeholders and asking stakeholders to rank the importance and urgency of each issue.

EMC then presents the results of this prioritisation exercise to the RCP, together with a recommended work plan for the next 12 months.