Paragraph 7 Secretariat

Officials of the Signatory ESA States and of the European Commission shall act alternately for periods of 12 months as Secretary of the Customs Cooperation Committee. The Signatory ESA State may be assisted by the COMESA Secretariat. Those periods shall coincide with the holding of the Secretariat of the EPA Committee by respectively the Signatory ESA States and the European Commission. The Signatory ESA States assume the Secretariat on a rotating basis.