To induce a change of the europa-hierarchy, everyone can send a RFD (Request for Discussion), describing the desired change (e.g. creation, status change, deletion or renaming of a newsgroup), to the RFD submission address: mailto: rfd@europa.usenet.eu.org.
A RFD should include a concise charter (no more than 20 lines for each language), written in at least two different european languages, briefly describing the aims and topic of the newsgroup.
The steering group examines every RFD and may accept it, ask for modifications, or refuse it. When accepted, RFD are published on the newsgroup europa.usenet.admin where discussions will be hold for a maximum duration of two weeks.
The steering group will strongly advise for moderation in every case where the group appears likely to be problematic (see http://www.europa.usenet.eu.org/restrict.html ).
During the discussion period the proponent is free to send improved proposals to the steering group.
When the steering group believes that all arguments have been stated, it decides whether the proposal will be accepted or denied. The decision will be posted to europa.usenet.admin.
Philippe Vigeral