# Council Decision (EU) 2016/2118 of 28 October 2016 on the signing, on behalf of the Union, and provisional application of the Strategic Partnership Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and Canada, of the other part, Introduction: Introductory text

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Council Decision (EU) 2016/2118
of 28 October 2016
on the signing, on behalf of the Union, and provisional application of the Strategic Partnership Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and Canada, of the other part
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
Having regard to the Treaty on European Union, and in particular Article 31(1) and Article 37 thereof,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 212(1), in conjunction with Article 218(5) and second paragraph of Article 218(8) thereof,
Having regard to the joint proposal from the European Commission and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy,
Whereas:
(1)
On 8 December 2010 the Council authorised the Commission and the High Representative to open negotiations with Canada for a Framework Agreement to replace the Joint Political Declaration on EU-Canada relations of 1996.
(2)
Taking into account the close historical relationship and progressively closer links between the Parties, as well as their desire to strengthen and widen relations in an ambitious and innovative way, the negotiations on the Strategic Partnership Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of on the one part, and Canada, of on the other part (‘the Agreement’) were successfully concluded by the initialling of the Agreement in Ottawa on 8 September 2014.
(3)
Article 30 of the Agreement provides for the provisional application of the Agreement before its entry into force.
(4)
The Agreement should be signed on behalf of the Union. The Agreement should be applied in part, on a provisional basis in accordance with Article 30 thereof, pending the completion of the procedures necessary for its conclusion.
(5)
The signing of the Agreement on behalf of the Union and the provisional application of parts of the Agreement is without prejudice to the allocation of competences between the Union and its Member States in accordance with the Treaties,
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