Judgment_paragraph 2 · C-64/04

2The Agreement on relations in the sea fisheries sector between the European Economic Community and the Argentine Republic was approved on behalf of the Community by Council Regulation (EEC) No 3447/93 of 28 September 1993 (OJ 1993 L 318, p. 1; ‘the Fishing Agreement’). The ninth recital in the preamble to that agreement states that the parties to the Fishing Agreement are ‘convinced that this new type of cooperation in the fisheries sector will provide regular access to new fishing opportunities, further the aims of renewing and converting the Argentine fleet and restructuring the Community fleet and promote the rational exploitation of resources in the long term’.