Article 10 Scope
United Kingdom
Full and permanent dismantling of ginning facilities as referred to in Article 7(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 637/2008 shall require:
the definitive and total cessation of the ginning of cotton in the factory or factories concerned;
the dismantling of all ginning equipment thereof, and the removal of the ginning equipment from the site or sites, within one year of the approval of the application by the Member State;
the definitive exclusion of the ginning equipment from cotton processing in the Community, by:
- (i)
removal of equipment to a third country;
- (ii)
guaranteed application of equipment in another sector; or
- (iii)
destruction of equipment;
the restoring of the good environmental conditions of the factory site or sites and the facilitation of redeployment of the workforce; and
the written commitment not to use the production site or sites for the ginning of cotton during a period of ten years from the approval of the application as referred to in point (b).
Ginning equipment means all specific equipment used for the transformation of unginned cotton into ginned cotton and its by-products, including feeders, dryers, cleaners, stick machines, gins, condensers, lint cleaners and bale presses.
Member States may impose additional requirements with regard to dismantling as referred to in paragraph 1.
The ginning facilities referred to in paragraph 1 need to be in good working condition for an application to be eligible.
Factory buildings and sites may continue to be used for activities unrelated to cotton production, processing or trade.