In order not to undermine the effective functioning of cooperatives, and for the sake of clarity, it should be specified that, when a farmer's membership of a cooperative entails an obligation, in respect of all or a part of that farmer's milk production, to deliver raw milk, the conditions of which are set out in the cooperative's statutes or in the rules and decisions based thereon, those conditions should not be the subject of negotiations through a producer organisation.
Ionas nach mbainfear an bonn d'fheidhmiú éifeachtach comharchumann agus ar mhaithe le soiléireacht, ba cheart a shonrú i gcás ina ngabhann, le ballraíocht feirmeora i gcomharchumann, oibleagáid a bheith ann i dtaca le táirgeadh bainne uile an fheirmeora sin, nó cuid de, bainne amh a sheachadadh, a bhfuil na coinníollacha chuige sin leagtha amach laistigh de reachta an chomharchumainn nó sna rialacha nó sna cinntí atá bunaithe orthu siúd, níor cheart go mbeadh na coinníollacha sin faoi réir caibidlíochta trí eagraíocht táirgeoirí.