2012/418/EU: Council Decision of 21 December 2011 on the signing, on behalf of the European Union, and provisional application of certain provisions of the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Iraq, of the other part

The signing of the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Iraq, of the other part, is hereby authorised on behalf of the Union, subject to the conclusion of the said Agreement. The text of the Agreement is attached to this Decision.

The President of the Council is hereby authorised to designate the person(s) empowered to sign the Agreement on behalf of the Union.

Pending the completion of the necessary procedures for its entry into force, Article 2, and Titles II, III, and V of the Agreement shall be applied provisionally, in accordance with Article 117 of the Agreement only in so far as it concerns matters falling within the Union’s competence, from the first day of the third month following the date on which the Union and Iraq have notified each other of the completion of the necessary procedures for provisional application.

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