Article 1

The purpose of this Agreement is to establish the principles and rules which will in future govern, in all respects, the fisheries relations between the Community and Mozambique including fishing by vessels flying the flag of a Member State of the Community, hereinafter referred to as ‘Community vessels’, in the waters over which Mozambique has sovereignty or jurisdiction in respect of fisheries in accordance with the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and other rules of international law, hereinafter referred to as ‘Mozambique's waters’.