This Executive Committee seeks to try to provide some detailed guidance to the Secretariat on the activities of the EGADD, as well as wider guidance to ADS on its own export and trade control-related policies and activities. The Executive Committee is democratically-elected by the EGADD Membership and is entrusted with planning its activities, and being able to respond at very short notice, on behalf of the wider Membership, whenever there is a major development in the export and trade control arena, both nationally and internationally.