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Paragraph 135
 

In principle, where referendums are consultative, parallelism of procedures is not an issue.  This is the case in Belgium, Finland and Norway.  Clearly, this does not rule out a consultative referendum on a text amending a text put to referendum, as indicated in the Netherlands reply to the questionnaire.