ECO.9:4.3 - Choose the next action at the scale its grounds support

Compare the attainable gains, transition burdens and costs of waiting. An established urgent failure can justify an immediately available protective action. A proposed revision that needs another party’s agreement or an authorized decision becomes effective only through that route; urgency alone does not change existing commitments. An uncertain mechanism with reversible consequences may be tested through a limited trial; a costly irreversible change may need a different comparison. C.11.DUA governs whether more inquiry can improve this choice.

Name what observation would favour continuation, adjustment or withdrawal, without requiring a new reporting system when ordinary work already supplies it. After the change, check whether the intended practice can actually be performed and whether another contribution was lost. Return to the affected rule or capability rather than defending the plan merely because it was adopted.