Notwithstanding the notable innovations listed above, the Charter maintains key traditional features of the organisation: It lacks a dispute settlement mechanism – whenever agreement is not reached by one of the Councils, the question is elevated to the ASEAN Summit -, decision-making continues to be consensual (the ‘ASEAN way’), its decisions lack legal, let alone supranational character, and the only parliamentary role is embodied in the limited input of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly.