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Article 1 Scope and objectives

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This Agreement establishes the principles, rules and procedures governing:

  • economic, financial, technical and scientific cooperation in the fisheries sector with the purpose of ensuring that the exploitation of the fisheries resources provide sustainable economic and social conditions including the development of the Greenlandic fisheries sector,

  • the conditions governing access by Community fishing vessels to the Greenlandic Exclusive Economic zone (hereinafter ‘the Greenlandic EEZ’),

  • the arrangements for regulating fisheries of Community vessels in the Greenlandic EEZ with a view to ensuring that the rules and conditions applicable to them are complied with, the measures for the conservation and management of fish stocks are effective and illegal, undeclared and unregulated fishing is prevented,

  • partnerships between companies aimed at developing economic activities in the fisheries sector and related activities, in the common interest.