1.Each undertaking may decide to carry forward all or part of its production in excess of its sugar quota, its isoglucose quota or its inulin syrup quota to be treated as part of the next marketing year's production. Without prejudice to paragraph 3, that decision shall be irrevocable.
2.Undertakings which take the decision referred to in paragraph 1 shall:
(a)inform the Member State concerned before a date to be determined by this Member State:
(a)between 1 February and 30 June of the current marketing year for quantities of cane sugar being carried forward,
between 1 February and 15 April of the current marketing year for others quantities of sugar or inulin syrup being carried forward;
(b)undertake to store such quantities at their own expense until the end of the current marketing year.
3.If an undertaking's definitive production in the marketing year concerned was less than the estimate made when the decision in accordance with paragraph 1 was taken, the quantity carried forward may be adjusted retroactively by 31 October of the following marketing year at the latest.
4.The quantities carried forward shall be deemed to be the first quantities produced under the quota of the following marketing year.