Political parties are not mentioned in the Constitutional Act of the Kingdom of Denmark, which is the framework of the Danish political system. Nor do the Standing Orders include any specific provisions about parliamentary groups. An annex to the Standing Orders containing rules on the time allotted to speakers, etc., does provide some guidance, however. It follows from the annex that the term ’parliamentary group’ should in this context be understood to mean a group consisting of several members who: a) have been elected to represent and continue to represent a certain party in parliament; b) have found a new parliamentary group or party to put up candidates for the next election; c) join an existing political party that is not represented in the Danish Parliament but whose Members are entitled to stand for election; or d) no longer maintain a valid affiliation with the political party represented by the group but continue to appear together as a group, with a common policy.