Judgment_paragraph 3 · Prenatal S.A. v Tribunal Económico Administrativo Regional de Cataluña (TEARC) (C-589/17)

3The Partnership Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States, of the one part, and the European Community and its Member States, of the other part, signed in Cotonou on 23 June 2000 (OJ 2000 L 317, p. 3), was approved on behalf of the European Community by Council Decision 2003/159/EC of 19 December 2002 (OJ 2003 L 65, p. 27) (‘the Cotonou Agreement’). As the Cotonou Agreement entered into force on 1 April 2003, it was the subject of anticipated application from 2 August 2000 in accordance with Decision No 1/2000 of the ACP-EC Council of Ministers of 27 July 2000 regarding transitional measures valid from 2 August 2000 until the entry into force of the ACP-EC Partnership Agreement (OJ 2000 L 195, p. 46), as extended by Decision No 1/2002 of ACP-EC Council of Ministers of 31 May 2002 (OJ 2002 L 150, p. 55).