Outside human rights, the other major challenge to sovereignty of ASEAN members was the question of when sovereign interests could be bypassed – sometimes deemed necessary under the prerogative of accelerating the ASEAN Economic Community. The Eminent Persons Group tasked with making suggestions for the future charter proposed the most radical changes to ASEAN decision-making to achieve these goals, yet these were eventually rejected and the ‘ASEAN minus X’ formula was confined to the ASEAN Economic Community, only if there were consensus to do so. The control of the initiative, the use of shared norms and precedents, and other opportunities for influence played decisive roles in the eventual decision.