 In practice, the National Assembly only met for three brief sessions per year, during which it merely rubber-stamped legislation and BCP nominations for the State Council, Supreme Court, and Council of Ministers.When the National Assembly was not in session, the State Council had the power to issue decrees, and was not even nominally required to submit them to the National Assembly for approval at its next session.In most other Communist regimes, the legislature at least theoretically had the power of veto in such circumstances, though it was almost never exercised in practice.