Legal provisions of JOIN(2018)20 - Signing and provisional application of the partnership agreement with the Government of Malaysia

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dossier JOIN(2018)20 - Signing and provisional application of the partnership agreement with the Government of Malaysia.
document JOIN(2018)20 EN
date July  3, 2018

Contents

Article 1

The signing of the Framework Agreement on Partnership and Cooperation between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and the Government of Malaysia, of the other part ('Agreement'), is hereby approved on behalf of the Union, subject to the conclusion of the said Agreement.

The text of the Agreement to be signed is attached to this Decision.

Article 2

The Council Secretariat General shall establish the instrument of full powers to sign the Agreement, subject to its conclusion, for the person(s) indicated by the negotiators of the Agreement.

Article 3

1. Pending its entry into force, and in accordance with Article 58 of the Agreement and subject to the notifications provided for therein, the following parts of the Agreement shall be applied provisionally between the Union and Malaysia:

–Title I Nature and scope;

–Title II Bilateral, regional and international cooperation;

–Title III Cooperation on international peace, security and stability;

–Title IV Cooperation on trade and investment;

–Title V Cooperation on justice and security (with the exception of Articles 21 and 24);

–Title VI Cooperation in other sectors (with the exception of Article 28);

–Title VII Cooperation on science, technology and innovation (with the exception of Article 37 to the extent that it concerns cooperation on maritime transport);

–Title VIII Means of cooperation;

–Title IX Institutional framework, to the extent that the provisions of that Title are limited to the purpose of ensuring the provisional application of the Agreement;

–Title X Final provisions, to the extent that the provisions of that Title are limited to the purpose of ensuring the provisional application of the Agreement.

2. The date from which the parts of the Agreement are to be provisionally applied shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union by the General Secretariat of the Council.

Article 4

This Decision shall enter into force on the day of its adoption.