Entry into force
Article 98
1. This Agreement shall be signed, ratified or approved in accordance with constitutional or domestic rules and applicable procedures. 2. This Agreement shall enter into force on the first day of the month following that in which the depositories of the Agreement have been notified of the last instrument of ratification, acceptance or approval. 3. Notifications shall be sent to the Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union and the President of the Commission of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa, who shall be the depositories of this Agreement. 4. Pending this Agreement's entry into force, the EC Party and the Central Africa Party agree to apply the provisions of this Agreement in accordance with their respective powers (‘provisional application’). This may be done either by provisional application, where such application is possible, or via ratification of the Agreement. 5. The depositories of the Agreement shall be notified of such provisional application. The Agreement shall be applied provisionally 10 days after receipt of this notification of provisional application by the European Community and after receipt of the notification, either by ratification or by provisional application, by all signatory Central African States. 6. Notwithstanding paragraph 4, the EC Party and the signatory Central African States may unilaterally take measures to apply the Agreement, before provisional application, to the extent that this is possible.