63It follows from those considerations that the answer to be given to the fifth question must be that as a matter of principle the competent national authority is not authorised to demand that an undertaking pay a charge pursuant to Article 3(1) of Regulation No 2670/81 where it has not informed the undertaking of that requirement within the period prescribed by Article 3(2) of that regulation. Exceeding the time-limit may be permissible where the competent national authority, without negligence on its part, did not know the details of the undertaking's sugar production and where that lack of knowledge may reasonably be attributed to the undertaking, because it has not acted in good faith and has not complied with all the relevant provisions.
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