The Council of Ministers and the Secretariat are two separate things. I am going to talk about the Secretariat because the administration of the Protocol is really handled by it. There is a team that essentially administers the agreements, the national scholarship program and the language assistant program. For the overall functioning of the Protocol, there are annual meetings to discuss current issues with the federal government. The bilateral agreements also provide for periodic agreements between the federal government and the parties involved, for example to adjust targets from year to year.
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