CELEX: 31993R1555
Language: en
Date: 1993-06-14 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation No 1555/93 of 14 June 1993 fixing the guide price for unginned cotton for the 1993/94 marketing year

No L 154/24                              Official Journal of the European Communities                              25 . 6 . 93
                                           COUNCIL REGULATION No 1555/93
                                                        of 14 June 1993
                          fixing the guide price for unginned cotton for the 1993/94 marketing year
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                                        Article 1
Economic Community,
                                                                    1 . For the 1993/94 marketing year, the guide price for
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Greece and in              unginned cotton shall be ECU 102,79/100 kg.
particular paragraph 8 of Protocol s on cotton, as last
amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 2052/92 ( 1 ),                      2.     The price referred to in paragraph 1 shall be for
                                                                    cotton :
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (2),             — of sound, genuine and merchantable quality,
Having regard to the opinion of the European                        — containing 10 % moisture and 3% impurities,
Parliament (3 ),                                                   — with the characteristics required to yield, after
                                                                        ginning, 54% of seed and 32% of fibres of grade
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social                 No 5 (white middling), with a length of 28 mm
Committee (4),                                                          ( 1-V).
Whereas paragraph 8 of Protocol 4 states that the guide                                      Article 2
price for cotton that has not been ginned is to be fixed
annually by reference to the criteria laid down in                  This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
paragraph 2 of that Protocol;                                       following its publication in the Official Journal of the
                                                                    European Communities.
Whereas application of the aforementioned criteria leads
to the fixing of the guide price as indicated below,                It shall apply from 1 September 1993 .
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Luxembourg, 14 June 1993.
                                                                                          For the Council
                                                                                           The President
                                                                                             B. WESTH
(') OJ No L 215, 30. 7. 1992, p. 10.
(2) OJ No C 80, 20. 3 . 1993, p. 21 .
(3) OJ No C 150, 31 . 5. 1993.
(4) OJ No C 129, 10. 5. 1993, p. 25 .