AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
ON COOPERATION IN FISHERIES AND THE
CONSERVATION OF THE LIVING MARINE RESOURCES
IN THE BALTIC SEA

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

and

THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY,

hereinafter referred to as the "Parties",

NOTING that the Convention on Fishing and Conservation of the Living Resources in the Baltic Sea and the Belts (Gdansk Convention) of 1973 will cease to be applied on 1 January 2007,

RECOGNISING that following the accession of Sweden and Finland to the Community on 1 January 1995 and Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland on 1 May 2004, elements of the fisheries agreements pertaining to maritime fisheries in the Baltic Sea concluded respectively by the Governments of the Republic of Latvia, the Kingdom of Sweden, the Republic of Finland, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Poland and the Republic of Lithuania with the Government of the Russian Federation are now managed by the Community,