339. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the planned signing of the Economic Partnership Agreement between the Southern African Development Community, SADC, and the European Union which is due to take place on 10 June 2016; that the agreement will be provisionally applied from 1 October 2016; his views that it will be provisionally applied by the SADC countries without waiting for their parliaments to vote on it; that the provisional application of international agreements is not foreseen in the constitutions or legal structures of most SADC countries; and if he will call for the signing to be suspended until the SADC countries are given appropriate time for the necessary parliamentary scrutiny and until voting on the agreement takes place. [15403/16]

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339. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the planned signing of the Economic Partnership Agreement between the Southern African Development Community, SADC, and the European Union which is due to take place on 10 June 2016; that the agreement will be provisionally applied from 1 October 2016; his views that it will be provisionally applied by the SADC countries without waiting for their parliaments to vote on it; that the provisional application of international agreements is not foreseen in the constitutions or legal structures of most SADC countries; and if he will call for the signing to be suspended until the SADC countries are given appropriate time for the necessary parliamentary scrutiny and until voting on the agreement takes place. [15403/16]

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