(1)On 29 December 2020, the Council adopted Decision (EU) 2020/2252note on the signing, on behalf of the Union, and on provisional application of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, of the one part, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, of the other part (the ‘Trade and Cooperation Agreement’) and of the Agreement between the European Union and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland concerning security procedures for exchanging and protecting classified information (the ‘Security of Information Agreement’). The Trade and Cooperation Agreement and the Security of Information Agreement (the ‘Agreements’) were signed on 30 December 2020, subject to their conclusion at a later date.