Article 40 makes it possible to adopt an act contrary to the decision made in a referendum or amend its essence only after the expiration of one year from the day of the referendum. According to the English translation of Article 40 as submitted to rapporteurs, a referendum is to be called any time if such an amendment takes place. The Venice Commission was however informed that the Serbian version available to the public does not include the phrase “with the obligation to repeat the referendum”, in the sense that no referendum would be needed after one year (see also Article 41.1). This should be clarified. The Guidelines recommend that “[f]or a certain period of time, a text that has been rejected in a referendum may not be adopted by a procedure without referendum”. A deadline of one year appears short and could make it easy to circumvent the will of the people. More respect for the people’s decision would lead to wait at the very least until the next legislature, with a new mandate of the citizens for the Assembly. On the contrary, excluding forever the revision of a text adopted by referendum without holding a referendum could be too rigid. An intermediate way could be to submit such revision to an optional referendum at the request of voters.