Legal provisions of COM(2020)576 - Amending the Interim Partnership Agreement with the Pacific States as regards the accessions of Samoa and the Solomon Islands, and of future accessions

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Article 1

1. The signing of the Agreement amending the Interim Partnership Agreement between the European Community, of the one part, and the Pacific States, of the other part, as regards the accessions of the Independent State of Samoa and the Solomon Islands, and of future accessions of other Pacific Island States, is hereby approved on behalf of the Union, subject to the conclusion of the said agreement.

2. 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 negotiator of the Agreement.

Article 3

The Agreement shall be applied provisionally, in accordance with Article 76(2) of the Interim Partnership Agreement, as from the day of its signature, pending its entry into force.

Article 4

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