At the EU-Russia Summit on 25th May this year, leaders agreed to develop a new agreement to replace the PCA, which will reach the end of its initial ten-year period on 30 November 2007. The Commission is suggesting that the new agreement covers the vast area of cooperation built up in the intervening years, notably set out in the common spaces road maps adopted at the summit in May 2005. Leaders agreed that the PCA will remain in force until it is replaced by the new agreement, to avoid a legal vacuum.