The CEC will move its Secretariat from Geneva to Brussels, where it has been since the founding of CEC in 1959.
A Governing Board of 20 members will replace the larger CEC Central Committee. The board will gather at least twice annually to conduct business between General Assemblies to be held every five years.
Existing commissions that make up CEC will be restructured into a more unified system.
Delegates voted by 88 to 87 to remove explicit percentage quotas for gender balance and youth representation on CEC's Central Committee, replacing a specific requirement which had been in place for more than 20 years with more general language.