The main topic of discussion were potential models of institutionalization of the SEECP Parliamentary Dimension. The discussion focused on two documents drafted by the parliaments in Ankara and Sofia presenting two different concepts for the parliamentary dimension within the South East Europe Cooperation Process.

Citing earlier documents, particularly the Final Declaration adopted at the Conference of Parliament Speakers in Antalya, the Turkish representatives proposed that the process should become a regional parliamentary assembly, explaining that the creation of a parliamentary assembly would help promote parliamentary cooperation in the region, as well as better representation of the region as a whole. They also stressed that it would be the first parliamentary assembly to gather SEE countries, although there are nearly a hundred examples of cooperation of this kind in the world.

On the other hand, the representatives of the Parliament in Sofia urged for a looser type of parliamentary cooperation via regular conferences of parliament speakers, the work of standing committees, rapporteurs and a standing secretariat.

The participants agreed to draft a report containing an overview of realised activities, as well as an overview of proposed modalities of parliamentary cooperation in the South East Europe region by the next meeting in March 2012 in Belgrade.

The Chair, Gordana Comic, informed the gathering that the European Movement in Serbia, in cooperation with the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, as part of its chairing the SEECP, would organise a Conference on the relationship between the parliament and independent regulatory bodies in March 2012.

The fourth meeting of the SEECP PD Working Group was held with the financial assistance of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.