Prior to its conclusion and subject to reciprocity, the Agreement referred to in Article 1(1) 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 and of the procedures referred to in paragraph 2.

The versions of the Agreement referred to in Article 1(1) 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.

The 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.

The 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(1).

The provisional application referred to in paragraph 1 shall be agreed by means of an exchange of letters between the Community and the Government of the United Kingdom. The texts of those letters are attached to this Decision.