31993R1555

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,

— containing 10 % moisture and 3% impurities, Having regard to the opinion of the European 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 .