28665-MAG and its amendments through Executive Decrees No. 29972-MAG and No. 30270-MAG, so that it reads as follows:
"Article 257 bis.—If the actual production of a sugar mill (ingenio), at the end of each grinding month or upon its conclusion, exceeds the advance percentage of final molasses (%AM), established in accordance with the preceding article, by more than 4 kilograms of final molasses, said excess shall be recognized, retroactively, to the start of the grinding season, for all cane delivered, equivalent to final molasses, adjusting the %AM, such that the remainder during the corresponding period is not less than the equivalent of 4 kilograms of final molasses. Said adjustment shall be made in accordance with the production data in the possession of the Technical Department of the League.
For sugar mills (ingenios) that, in the last three harvests (zafras), have obtained an actual sugar production of 96º polarization, exceeding 100% of the assigned advance percentage (%AA), an advance percentage of final molasses (%AM) shall initially be set for the following harvest (zafra) at 5 percentage points less than the minimum established for the rest of the sugar mills (ingenios). In the event that the sugar mill (ingenio) to which the preceding rule has been applied does not exceed 100% in sugar (%AA) and also did not obtain the minimum advance percentage in final molasses (%AM) applied to the other sugar mills (ingenios), said percentage shall be adjusted to the minimum value.
Said initial advance percentage shall be set by the Board of Directors of the League, upon recommendation of the Advisory Commission, and may be modified by the Technical Department at the end of each grinding month or upon its conclusion, in accordance with the actual production recorded.
Said Department shall communicate the mentioned adjustments in writing to the Executive Directorate, so that it proceeds in accordance with subsection c) of Article 312 of this Regulation, and the same procedure established in the third and fourth paragraphs of Article 256 ibid. shall be applied.
Once the grinding season (molienda) is concluded, the Sugar Cane League (Liga de la Caña) shall notify the cane growers (productores de caña), by means of a notice to be published in two newspapers with the largest national circulation, of all adjustments made in the advance percentage of molasses in each sugar mill (ingenio)."