a) The Council does not make decisions but reports everything and receives instructions from the government; b) the Council is not to represent the former Chief Procurator, is not to engage in direct interference in the administrative, canonical, and dogmatic life of the Church, and through its activity is to emphasize the independence of the Church; c) the Chairman of the Council is to establish such relations with the Patriarch as would not give the Church's central body occasion to regard the Chairman of the Council as a Chief Procurator.

To ensure appropriate meetings, receptions, and forms of address with the Patriarch that could be utilized for appropriate influence; d) not to look into the pocket of the Church and the clergy, as this will spoil relations between the Council and the Church's central body and other leading figures of the Church, and to consider this the competence of the organs of the Ministry of Finance; e) not to administer "pinpricks" to groups of believers and, when examining the question of opening a church, to regulate but not suppress; f) the Council is to ensure that the episcopate is the full master of the diocese, and the right of the bishop to dispose of Church funds; g) not to place obstacles in the way of organizing seminaries, candle factories, and so forth.