Article 8 — The Secretariat

1. The Commission shall provide the Secretariat. 2. The Secretariat shall be responsible for: (a) ensuring the overall management of the EU Talent Pool, including the planning and coordination of the activities of the EU Talent Pool, as well as raising public awareness about it through communication activities and information campaigns; (b) setting up and managing the IT Platform and related IT services necessary for its functioning, in particular by using available technical infrastructure at Union level where relevant; (c) publishing on the IT Platform the relevant information referred to in Article 3(1), Article 3(2), fifth subparagraph, Article 9(5), Article 10(2), point (i), Article 12(4), Article 14(2), Article 15(2) and Article 17(1), second subparagraph; (d) convening and preparing the meetings of the Steering Group; (e) collecting relevant data for monitoring the performance of the EU Talent Pool pursuant to Article 20; (f) convening meetings of the Network of the National Contact Points referred to in Article 10(3) on a regular basis. The Secretariat shall provide the Steering Group, on a yearly basis, with the data referred to in Article 20(1) and (4). Where such data contains personal data, it shall be anonymised.