European Parliament's Need Assessment Mission on recommendations for Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada reforming Pat Cox has recommended the Verkhovna Rada to optimize its work and decrease a quorum necessary for voting.

"There are 2,500 bills on the agenda of the parliament, and 200 of them were tabled by MPs, which is good, but a lot," Cox said presenting the report of his mission in Brussels.

He said it was necessary to improve monthly schedule of parliamentary sittings, the parliament's control mechanisms over the executive power, as well as the structure of the parliamentary committees.

Cox also noted that Rada had a high quorum for decision taking. "225 votes plus one – that is sooner for the Constitution," Cox said. He advised to reduce it when adopting less important decisions.

Besides, Cox pointed to the voting system in the Verkhovna Rada, saying that "opposition should win the voting from time to time" that would correspond to the democratic procedures in the parliament.

As reported, the Ukraine Week (February 29-March 3) is being held in the European Parliament with Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada's Speaker Volodymyr Groysman partaking, Rada's heads of factions and committees, and MPs.