Translation of "Cotton growing " (English → French) :

cotton growing | cotton cultivation

cotton growing region

cotton growing region

cotton belt | cotton growing region | cotton-producing area

sea island cotton [ West-indian cotton | sea island | tree cotton | ceylon cotton | Siam cotton | China cotton ]

cotton removal from bale presser | unload processed cotton from bale presser | remove cotton from bale presser | unload cotton from bale presser

Levant cotton | Levant cotton plant | common annual cotton plant | wild cotton | herbaceous cotton plant

cotton-wool spot | cotton-wood exudate | cotton-wool patch | cotton wool exudate

In order to be eligible, the area shall be located on agricultural land authorised by the Member State for cotton production, sown under authorised varieties and actually harvested under normal growing conditions.

The area shall be eligible only if it is located on agricultural land authorised by the Member State for cotton production, sown with varieties authorised by the Member State and actually harvested under normal growing conditions.

By judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Communities of 7 September 2006 in case C-310/04 (6) Chapter 10a of Title IV of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 was annulled for breach of the principle of proportionality, in particular with reference to the circumstance that ‘the Council, the author of Regulation (EC) No 864/2004, [had] not shown before the Court that in adopting the new cotton support scheme established by that Regulation it actually exercised its discretion, involving the taking into consideration of all the relevant factors and circumstances of the case, including all the labour costs linked to cotton growing and the viability o ...[+++]f the ginning undertakings, which it was necessary to take into account for assessing the profitability of that crop’ and that the Court had not been enabled ‘to ascertain whether the Community legislature [had been] able, without exceeding the bounds of the broad discretion it enjoys in the matter, to reach the conclusion that fixing the amount of the specific aid for cotton at 35 % of the total existing aid under the previous support scheme would suffice to guarantee the objective set out in recital 5 in the preamble to Regulation (EC) No 864/2004, namely to ensure the profitability and hence the continuation of that crop, an objective reflecting that laid down in paragraph 2 of Protocol 4’.

As a result of these distortions, African producers cannot compete in global markets. This is despite the fact that the West African cotton-growing region contains the lowest-cost producers of cotton in the world.