Article 9

1. The details of the relevant information to be provided by the processor to the holder pursuant to Article 14 (3), sixth indent of the basic Regulation may form the object of a contract between the holder and the processor concerned.

2. Where such contract has not been concluded or does not apply, the processor shall, without prejudice to information requirements under other Community legislation or under legislation of Member States, on request of the holder, be required to provide a statement of relevant information to the holder. The following items shall be considered to be relevant:
(a) the name of the processor, the place of his domicile and the name and address registered for his business;
(b) the fact whether the processor has supplied a service of processing the product of the harvest belonging to one or more varieties of the holder for planting, where the variety or varieties were declared or otherwise known to the processor;
(c) if the processor has supplied such service, the amount of the product of the harvest belonging to the variety or varieties concerned, which has been processed for planting, by the processor, and the total amount resulting from that processing;
(d) the dates and places of the processing referred to in (c); and (e) the name and address of the person or persons to whom he has supplied the service of processing referred to in (c), and the respective amounts.

3. The information under paragraph 2 (b), (c), (d) and (e) shall refer to the current marketing year and to one or more of the three preceding marketing years for which the holder has not yet made an earlier request in accordance with the provisions of paragraphs 4 or 5; however, the first marketing year to which the information refers, shall be the one in which the first of such requests was made in respect of the variety or varieties and the processor concerned.

4. The provisions of Article 8 (4) shall apply mutatis mutandis.

5. A request which has not been made directly to the processor concerned, shall be considered to comply with the provisions of Article 8 (4), third sentence, if it is sent to processors through the following bodies or persons, with their prior agreement respectively:
- organizations of processors in the Community which are established at Community, national, regional or local level, concerning all processors who are members of, or represented in, such organization,
- farmers, concerning all processors who have supplied a service of processing the relevant product of the harvest to them for planting, in the current marketing year and in the three preceding marketing years, starting in the marketing year as specified in paragraph 3.

6. For a request made in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 5, the specification of individual processors is not required. The organizations or farmers may be authorized by the processors concerned to forward the required information to the holder.