Edited sentence: Although international law recognises Gibraltar's waters (and its right to claim a greater area) Spain is loath to agree.More recently, the Spanish Government has started to claim Gibraltar's territorial waters insisting that the territory has none.Spain has reverted to tactics such as listing Gibraltar's waters as Spanish under European Union mechanisms, despite the UK previously having registered the said territorial waters using the same mechanism.The European Union is presently reviewing the matter but traditionally does not take the views of Gibraltar into account, preferring to consider the dispute as bilateral so as not to offend the sovereignty sentiments of its more influential member states