2010/314/: Council Decision of 10 May 2010 on the signing and provisional application of the Geneva Agreement on Trade in Bananas between the European Union and Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru and Venezuela and of the Agreement on Trade in Bananas between the European Union and the United States of America

The President of the Council is hereby authorised to designate the person(s) empowered to sign, on behalf of the Union, the following Agreements: (a) the Geneva Agreement on Trade in Bananas between the European Union and Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru and Venezuela (the ‘Geneva Agreement’); (b) the Agreement on Trade in Bananas between the European Union and the United States of America (the ‘EU/US Agreement’). The texts of those Agreements are attached to this Decision.

1 Paragraphs 3, 6 and 7 of the Geneva Agreement shall be applied provisionally, in accordance with paragraph 8(b) thereof, from the date of signature of that Agreement, pending its entry into force.

2 Paragraph 2 and paragraph 3(a) and 3(b) of the EU/US Agreement shall be applied provisionally, in accordance with its paragraph 6, from the date of signature of that Agreement, pending its entry into force.

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