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dossier	JOIN(2016)8 - Signing and provisional application of the Framework Agreement with Australia.
document	JOIN(2016)8
date	September 29, 2016

table>(1)On 10 October 2011, the Council authorised the Commission and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy to open negotiations with Australia on a Framework Agreement to replace the EU-Australia Partnership Framework of 2008.

(2)

The negotiations on the Framework Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and Australia, of the other part (the ‘Agreement’) were successfully concluded on 5 March 2015. The Agreement reflects both the historically close relationship and increasingly strong links developing between the Parties, and their desire to further strengthen and extend their relations in an ambitious and innovative way.

(3)	Article 61 of the Agreement provides that the Union and Australia may apply provisionally certain provisions of the Agreement, determined mutually by the two Parties, pending its entry into force.

(4)	The Agreement should therefore be signed on behalf of the Union and some of its provisions should be applied on a provisional basis, pending the completion of the procedures necessary for its conclusion,