352In this regard, it should be noted that the Council states in recital 6 of the contested decision that ‘an agreement between the European Union and the Kingdom of Morocco is the only means of ensuring that the import of products originating in Western Sahara benefits from preferential origin, given that only the Moroccan authorities are able to ensure compliance with the rules necessary for the granting of such preferences’. It must therefore be inferred that it was with a view to drawing the appropriate conclusions from the particular situation of Western Sahara, described in paragraphs 350 and 351 above, that the Council decided to conclude the agreement at issue with the Kingdom of Morocco, which appeared to it to be the only one of the parties to the process for the self-determination of that territory which could exercise the powers required by that agreement, an inference that is confirmed, moreover, by the arguments relating to the applicant’s inability to exercise such powers that the Council and the Commission have advanced in the present proceedings.