Considerations on JOIN(2017)36 - Signing and provisional application of the Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement with Armenia

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dossier JOIN(2017)36 - Signing and provisional application of the Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement with Armenia.
document JOIN(2017)36 EN
date November 20, 2017
 
table>(1)On 29 September 2015, the Council authorised the Commission and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy to open negotiations with the Republic of Armenia on a framework agreement.
(2)Those negotiations have been successfully concluded, and the Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Armenia, of the other part (‘the Agreement’) was initialled on 21 March 2017.

(3)Article 385 of the Agreement provides for the provisional application of the Agreement, in whole or in part, before its entry into force.

(4)The Agreement should be signed on behalf of the Union and applied in part on a provisional basis, pending the completion of the procedures necessary for its entry into force.

(5)The signing of the Agreement on behalf of the Union and the provisional application of parts of the Agreement between the Union and the Republic of Armenia is without prejudice to the allocation of competences between the Union and its Member States in accordance with the Treaties,