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Chapter 10: Civilian Organisation and Structures The Executive Secretariat The Executive Secretariat is responsible for the smooth functioning of the North Atlantic Council (NAC), the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC), the NATO-Russia Permanent Joint Council (PJC), the NATO-Ukraine Commission (NUC), the Mediterranean Cooperation Group (MCG), the Defence Planning Committee (DPC) and the Nuclear Planning Group (NPG), as well as the work of the whole structure of committees and working groups set up to support those bodies. It is also responsible for the planning and organisation of all Ministerial and Summit meetings, both at NATO Headquarters and abroad. The Executive Secretariat is, furthermore, responsible for the administrative arrangements concerning the EAPC and other bodies meeting in the EAPC or Partnership for Peace formats, and for the coordination of arrangements for the accreditation of diplomatic missions of Partner countries to NATO. Members of the Executive Secretariat act as Committee Secretaries and Minute Writers, providing administrative and secretarial backup to the Council and its senior committees. They prepare agendas, decision sheets, summary records and documents of a procedural nature required by the bodies concerned and act as advisers to committee chairmen and points of contact for the committees themselves. The Executive Secretary, as the Secretary of all Ministerial and Ambassadorial level bodies, is responsible to the Secretary General for ensuring that the work of the different divisions of the International Staff is carried out in accordance with the directives given. Through the Information Systems Service, his office ensures information technology support to both the International Staff and the International Military Staff and office communications for NATO Headquarters. He is also responsible for the implementation of the NATO-wide Information Management Policy and for the declassification, release to the public and archiving of NATO documents, in accordance with agreed procedures, when authorised by member countries.