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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2013-331/schedule-ANNEX I/paragraph-6",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2013/331",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision of 22 April 2013 on the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union with regard to the adoption of the Rules of Procedure of the EPA Committee, the Customs Cooperation Committee and the Joint Development Committee provided for by the Interim Agreement establishing a framework for an Economic Partnership Agreement between the Eastern and Southern Africa States, on the one part, and the European Community and its Member States, on the other part (2013/331/EU)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2013-331",
  "path": "schedule/ANNEX I/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Secretariat",
  "text": "1. Officials of the Signatory ESA States and of the European Commission shall act alternately for periods of 12 months as Secretary of the EPA Committee. The Signatory ESA State may be assisted by the COMESA Secretariat.\n2. Notwithstanding paragraph 1, the first period shall begin on the date of the first meeting of the EPA Committee and end on 31 December of the year thereafter. The Secretariat of the EPA Committee shall be held first by a representative of the European Commission. The Signatory ESA States assume the Secretariat on a rotating basis.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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