SOUTHERN AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY (e) direct, coordinate and supervise the operations of the institutions of SADC subordinate to it; (f) recommend, for approval to the Summit, the establishment of directorates, committees, other institutions and organs; (g) create its own committees as necessary; (h) recommend to the Summit persons for appointment to the posts of Executive Secretary and Deputy Executive Secretaries; (i) determine the Terms and Conditions of Service of the staff of the institutions of SADC; (j) develop and implement the SADC Common Agenda and strategic priorities; (k) convene conferences and other meetings as appropriate, for purposes of promoting the objectives and programmes of SADC; and (l) perform such other duties as may be assigned to it by the Summit or this Treaty. 3. The Chairperson and Deputy Chairperson of the Council shall be appointed by the Member States holding the Chairpersonship and Deputy Chairpersonship of SADC respectively. 4. The Council shall meet at least four times a year. 5. The Council shall report and be responsible to the Summit. 6. Decisions of the Council shall be taken by consensus. 7. The Council shall consider and recommend to the Summit any application for membership to SADC. ARTICLE 12 SECTORAL AND CLUSTER MINISTERIAL COMMITTEES 1. The Sectoral and Cluster Ministerial Committees shall consist of ministers from each Member State. 2. It shall be the responsibility of the Sectoral and Cluster Ministerial Committees to: (a) oversee the activities of the core areas of integration which include: (i) trade, industry, finance and investment; (ii) infrastructure and services; (iii) food, agriculture, natural resources and environment; (iv) social and human development and special programmes, which include: health and HIV and AIDS; education; labour; employment; and gender; (v) politics, defence and security; and Consolidated text of the Treaty of the Southern African Development Community, as Amended - 11 -