On 27 January 2010 the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic endorsed a bill presented by Czech Social Democratic Party to change the legal rules of research and development funding. The authors of the bill criticise the system implemented last year; according to them it poses a threat to the existence of research organisations. The government does not agree with the objections; according to Minister of Education Miroslava Kopicova it is the research assessment methodology that has sparked the controversy, and not the law.