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Article 18

Electronic data exchange system

In accordance with Article 24(5) of Regulation (EU) No 514/2014, all official exchanges of information between Switzerland and the Commission shall be carried out using an electronic data exchange system provided for by the Commission for that purpose.

Article 19

Entry into force

1. The Secretary General of the Council of the Union shall act as depositary of this

Agreement.

2. The Parties shall approve this Agreement in accordance with their own procedures.

They shall notify each other of the completion of those procedures.

3. This Arrangement shall enter into force on the first day of the first month following

the day of the last notification referred to in paragraph 2.

4. Except for Article 5, the Parties shall apply this Agreement provisionally as from the

day following that of its signature, without prejudice to constitutional requirements.

Article 20

Validity and termination

1. Either the Union or Switzerland may terminate this Agreement by notifying the other

Party of its decision. The Agreement shall cease to apply three months after the date of such notification. Projects and activities in progress at the time of termination shall continue according to the conditions laid down in this Agreement. The Parties shall settle by mutual agreement any other consequences of termination.

2. This Agreement shall be terminated when the Association Agreement with

Switzerland is terminated in accordance with Article 7(4), Article 10(3) or Article 17 of the Association Agreement with Switzerland.

Article 21

Languages

This Agreement shall be drawn up in a single original in the Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, and Swedish languages, each of those texts being equally authentic.