TITLE IIINTERNAL MARKET
CHAPTER 1Prices
Article 6Interprofessional agreements
1
Agreements within the trade and delivery contracts shall conform to paragraph 3 and to purchase terms laid down in Annex II, in particular as regards the conditions governing the purchase, delivery, taking over and payment of beet.
2
The terms for buying sugar beet and sugar cane shall be governed by agreements within the trade concluded between Community growers of these raw materials and Community sugar undertakings.
3
In delivery contracts, a distinction shall be made according to whether the quantities of sugar to be manufactured from sugar beet will be:
quota sugar,
out-of-quota sugar.
4
Each sugar undertaking shall provide the Member State in which it produces sugar with the following information:
a
the quantities of beet referred to in the first indent of paragraph 3, for which they have concluded pre-sowing delivery contracts and the sugar content on which those contracts are based;
b
the corresponding estimated yield.
Member States may require additional information.
5
Sugar undertakings which have not signed pre-sowing delivery contracts at the minimum price for quota beet for a quantity of beet equivalent to their quota sugar shall be required to pay at least the minimum price for quota beet for all the sugar beet they process into sugar.
6
Subject to the approval of the Member State concerned, agreements within the trade may derogate from paragraphs 3 and 4.
7
If no agreements within the trade exist, the Member State concerned shall take the necessary steps under this Regulation to protect the interests of the parties concerned.