The executive committee of elected representatives from national groups set policy and oversee the work of the secretariat.

Friends of the Earth International ( FoEI ) is supported by a secretariat based in Amsterdam, and an executive committee known as ExCom.

The secretariat was composed of those committee members who happened to be in the city, most of whom were co-thinkers of Shachtman.

The committee structure is supported by a CEB secretariat located in New York and Geneva.

The committee has an independent secretariat which was previously provided by the Cabinet Office.

The other parties were structured just like the Communists, with a secretariat, central committee, and Presidium.

The committee is assisted by the Norwegian Nobel Institute, its secretariat, and the committee holds their meetings in the institute's building, where the winner is also announced.

The committee is assisted by the Norwegian Nobel Institute, its secretariat.

They are called the Basel Accords as the BCBS maintains its secretariat at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland and the committee normally meets there.

In 1967 Koratala was first elected to the state committee of the CPI ( M ) and in 1978 to the state secretariat.

The role of the secretariat is to support the Treasury Board as a committee of ministers, and to fulfill the statutory responsibilities of a central government agency.

He was an alternative member of Politburo of 8th CPC central committee, a secretary of central secretariat of 11th CPC central committee, and a politburo member of 12th.

In 1966 he became third secretary of the Yerevan party committee, joining the secretariat of the Armenian Central Committee in 1972.

The Data Interchange Standards Association serves as the secretariat for ASC X12 and its X12 EDI and XML standards development process.

The Commission of the African Union serves as the AU's administrative branch, and as a secretariat of the Pan African Parliament.

On a regional level, PERSGA-the Regional Organization for the Conservation of the Environment of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, is a regional entity serves as the secretariat for the Jeddah Convention-1982, one of the first regional marine agreements.

There is an intense cooperation between RASAB and the secretariat and board of EASAC.

While this would give a view of the house from further back, it would also cut through the square between the secretariat buildings.

The service is headed by a Director General at the grade of a Permanent Secretary of the British Civil Service who is directly supported by an internal security organisation, secretariat, legal advisory branch and information services branch.

The secretariat is also in charge of approving the salary and allowance for the general service as well as providing advice to different UN agencies.

* Administrative and service personnel ( archivists, secretariat, maintenance personnel ).

* The general secretariat, led by Berty Albrecht, was in charge of general services including lodging, false papers, finance and the service sociale ( the service social was established in 1941, and allocated a small pension, income, goods and food to the families of resistance members who had been captured.

The former name International Hydrographic Bureau was retained to describe the IHO secretariat comprising three elected Directors and a small staff at the Organization's headquarters in Monaco.

The UNECE secretariat headquarters is in Geneva, Switzerland, and has an approximate budget of US $ 50 million.

Miami, Panama City and Puebla served successively as interim secretariat headquarters during the negotiation process.

* 1975: The Convention on Wetlands of International Importance ( Ramsar Convention ) comes into force, and its secretariat is administered from the IUCN's headquarters

The City of Puebla submitted its candidacy to hold the headquarters of the Free Trade Area of the Americas, and briefly served as interim secretariat headquarters, until negotiations were stopped on 2005.

English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat ; most of the daily communication within secretariat and most of the signs in the UN headquarters building are in French and English.

Most of these had headquarters in Cardiff, with offices in London to help co-ordinate policies with Whitehall departments, and to provide secretariat and support services for Ministers and the Permanent Secretary.

The Legislature of Tamil Nadu and the secretariat ( with headquarters of various government departments ) was situated in the fort.

Its coordinating body was a multi-stakeholder bureau, assisted by a small secretariat at UN headquarters in New York.

: The headquarters of the university secretariat for the Bunkyo University Institute Legal Educational Foundation are located at this site.

At the time Japanese rule of Taiwan began in 1895, the Governor-General of Taiwan set up temporary headquarters at the former Qing Dynasty secretariat.

In 1987, PLASA's new headquarters were opened in Eastbourne, and in addition to the PLASA secretariat, the association's own magazine Lighting & Sound International also operated from the same offices.

The department was formed in December 1916 from the secretariat of the Committee of Imperial Defence under Sir Maurice Hankey, the first Cabinet Secretary.

The Defence and Overseas Secretariat is a secretariat in the United Kingdom Cabinet Office.

In addition, a certain section of the secretariat was aimed to function permanently in the seat of the League of Nations.

In addition, a secretariat for sports and leisure was established, while the opportunities for the children of workers and peasants in secondary education were increased.

In addition to the below, the IPO provides the secretariat for the NGO Committee on Development at the United Nations Office at Vienna.

The secretariat provides support and secretariat services to the Cabinet Committee for Foreign Affairs and Security ( formerly the Cabinet Committee on Security, Public Health and Emergencies ), in addition to the Advisory Council on National Security who provides confidential expert advice to the Government through the National Security Advisor on issues related to national security.

It designated the Secretary of State as chairman of the Senior Interdepartmental Group for Foreign Policy ( SIG ( FP )), and established a " permanent secretariat, composed of personnel of the State Department ," augmented " as necessary " by other agency personnel requested by the Secretary of State, to deal with foreign affairs matters.

The following year, Mitchell introduced legislation to restrict future development in all national parks and announced the creation of an aboriginal affairs secretariat to assist Parks Canada in matters relating to First Nations communities.

The National Homeless Initiative ( NHI ), created in 1999, was the federal secretariat most directly responsible for homelessness matters until its closure in 2007.

The Federal Council had powers to legislate directly upon certain matters, such as in relation to extradition, regulation of fisheries, and so on, but it did not have a permanent secretariat, executive powers, or any revenue of its own.