Article 4 Secretariat
United Kingdom
1.
The General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union and the European Commission on the one hand, and the SADC EPA Unit within the SADC Secretariat on the other hand, shall act alternately for periods of 12 months as the Secretariat of the Joint Council (‘the Secretariat’). Those periods shall coincide with the chairmanship arrangements established under Article 1(4) and (5).
2.
On the part of the EU Party, provisional agendas and draft minutes shall be drawn up by the European Commission and all official documents intended for, or emanating from, the Joint Council shall be circulated by the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union.