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Figure 7.8 TRACECA governance institutions
Source: consortium.
The Intergovernmental Commission TRACECA (IGC) is the highest governance institution of TRACECA
and consists of the highest governmental authority of each member state, usually ministers or deputy
ministers of transport. The Chairman of the IGC is elected among the member states each year
(according to a rotation principle in alphabetic order). The IGC hosts annual conferences and organizes
ad hoc sessions when necessary. The main tasks of the IGC are:
 Adopting and implementing decisions of the member states based on consensus;
 Managing and guiding TRACECA action plans, preparing amendments to the MLA and organizing
working groups;
 Electing the board of the Permanent Secretary.
The executive body of TRACECA, the Permanent Secretariat (PS) was established in 2001 and is based
in Baku, Azerbaijan. The PS board consists of a representative from each member state. It provides
administrative aid to the IGC, such as facilitating its organisation and coordinating working group
meetings. The secretariat maintains the transport and project database and the TRACECA archive.
Other tasks include:
 Offering technical advisory services and disseminating information;
 Maintain coordination, programming and project cycle management of TRACECA projects;
 Promote the MLA objectives and IGC decisions.
The secretariat regularly organizes meetings for the IGC, at least twice a year. The meetings are
attended by national secretaries, (transport) representatives of the member states, the European
Commission, observers and other organisations based on the themes discussed. Typically, the IGC
meetings include the following topics65:
 Analysing the problems within the competence of the IGC, as well as drafting the recommendations
and decisions on these issues;
 Elaboration of the relevant proposals on any amendments and additions to the MLA including new
Technical Annexes to the MLA to be discussed by the IGC;
 Elaboration of the PS annual Action Plan;
 Drafting the annual report on the PS activities, to be submitted to the IGC;
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Intergovernmental Commission
TRACECA (IGC)
Permanent Secretariat (PS)
Administrative
personnel
Team of Experts
National Commission
Permanent
Representative Office