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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2020-2253/article-3",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2020/2253",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision (Euratom) 2020/2253 of 29 December 2020 approving the conclusion, by the European Commission, of the Agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the European Atomic Energy Community for Cooperation on the Safe and Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy and the conclusion, by the European Commission, on behalf of the European Atomic Energy Community, of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, of the one part, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, of the other part",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2020-2253",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. Prior to its conclusion and subject to reciprocity, the Agreement referred to in Article 1(2), as regards matters falling under the Euratom Treaty, shall be signed and shall be applied on a provisional basis as from 1 January 2021, pending the completion of the procedures necessary for its entry into force.\n2. The notification to the United Kingdom in accordance with Article 12(2) of Decision (EU) 2020/2252 regarding the completion of the Union’s internal requirements and procedures necessary for provisional application shall be given by the President of the Council provided that, prior to the date referred to in paragraph 1, the United Kingdom has notified the Union that its internal requirements and procedures necessary for provisional application have been completed.\n3. The versions of the Agreement referred to in Article 1(2) in the Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish languages shall be subject to final legal-linguistic revision.\nThe language versions resulting from the legal-linguistic revision referred to in the first subparagraph shall be established as authentic and definitive by exchange of diplomatic notes with the United Kingdom.\nThe authentic and definitive texts referred to in the second subparagraph shall replace ab initio the signed versions of the Agreement referred to in Article 1(2).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2020/2253/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:12:00.970293+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}