Part VII Treaty Clauses and Instruments, Applying the Treaty

Provisional application is the agreement of some or all negotiating participants to apply one or more of a treaty’s substantive provisions in advance of the treaty’s initial entry into force (or pending its individual entry into force for those agreeing to provisional application).53 That agreement may come in the text of the treaty to be provisionally applied or in some ‘other manner so agreed’, such as a protocol, exchange of notes, or IO resolution.54 When or how provisional application begins may vary, just as its scope may be unqualified or subject to a...