EX-4.05 8 d425960dex405.htm THIRD AMENDMENT TO AGREEMENT TO SUPPLY SUGARCANE Third Amendment to Agreement to Supply Sugarcane

EXHIBIT 4.05

THIRD AMENDMENT TO THE AGREEMENT OF SUGARCANE SUPPLY

By this Private Instrument, the below qualified parties,

BRASILAGRO – COMPANHIA BRASILEIRA DE PROPRIEDADES AGRÍCOLAS, joint stock company enrolled at the National Register of Corporate Taxpayers (CNPJ) under 07.628.528/0001-59, headquartered in the city of São Paulo, State of São Paulo, at Avenida Brigadeiro Faria Lima, n° 1.309 – 5º andar, herein duly represented pursuant to its By Laws, hereinafter named “BRASILAGRO”; and

BRENCO – COMPANHIA BRASILEIRA DE ENERGIA RENOVÁVEL, joint stock company, enrolled at the National Register of Corporate Taxpayers (CNPJ) under 08.070.566/0001-00, headquartered in the city of São Paulo, State of São Paulo, at Avenida Pedroso de Moraes, n° 1.553 – 8° andar, herein duly represented pursuant to its By Laws , hereinafter named “BRENCO”;

Being BRASILAGRO and BRENCO hereinafter also referred to, jointly, as “Parties” or, individually, as “ Party”;

WHEREAS

 

  (i) On March 13 2008, the Parties entered into the Agreement for Sugarcane Supply (“Agreement”), as amended on August 31, 2009 by the “ First Amendment to the Sugarcane Supply Agreement” (“ First Amendment”) and on May 03, 2010 by the Second Amendment to the Sugarcane Supply Agreement” (“Second Amendment”) , the purpose of which is the supply, by BRASILAGRO to BRENCO, of the production of 2 (two) complete cycles of sugarcane crop produced in the total effectively plantable area existing in the rural property object of the real state registrations 19.964 of the Real Estate Registry of the District of Mineiros, State of Goiás (“ Properties of Morro Vermelho Project” or “ Fazenda Morro Vermelho”)

 

  (ii) Pursuant to the Agreement of Sugarcane Supply and its amendments, Brasilagro is responsible for providing the sugarcane harvesting of the harvests contemplated in the 2 (two) complete cycles of sugarcane crop up to Brenco’s production plant of ethanol located in the Municipality of Mineiros/GO, named “Unidade de Bioenergia Morro Vermelho” (the “Plant”);

 

  (iii) Due to the delay of Brenco in the sugarcane grinding at the Plant, part of the sugarcane (“18 month sugarcane “), object of the Agreement of Sugarcane Supply, shall be harvested by Brenco, being this one responsible for the cut, transshipment, loading and transportation of the 18 month sugarcane, of 2010/2011 harvest, to the Plant.

The Parties have just and contracted this Third Amendment to the Agreement of Sugarcane Supply (“Third Amendment”), which shall be governed by the following terms and conditions:

 

1. PURPOSE OF THE AMENDEMENT

 

1.1 By this Third Amendment, the Parties have certain and adjusted that the cut, transshipment, loading and transportation of the 18 (eighteen) month sugarcane (“CCT”) for the harvest year 2010/2011, shall be carried out in an independent manner by Brenco, through the discount of the amount previously agreed by the Parties, in accordance with the calculation provided in Exhibit I, on the amount to be paid by Brenco to Brasilagro, due to the sugarcane supply, pursuant to the Agreement of Sugarcane Supply.


1.2 The Parties agree that the established amount for the CCT related to the harvest year 2010/2011, in accordance with calculation provided in Exhibit I, shall be discounted from the amount to be paid by Brenco to Brasilagro, due to the sugarcane supply, is fixed and not adjustable.

 

  1.2.1 Brasilagro shall continue to issue Electronic Invoices to Brenco, related to the full amount of the sugarcane supply. The agreed discount due to the CCT shall be performed through accounting adjustment between the Parties, not changing the invoiced amount due to the sugarcane supply.

 

1.3 Due to the provisions of Section 1.1 above, it is certain and adjusted the insertion of Section 4.11 in the Agreement of Sugarcane Supply that becomes its integral part.

 

  4.11. Exceptionally, in the harvest year 2010/2011 exclusively, the cut, transshipment, loading and transportation of the 18 (eighteen) month sugarcane, shall be conducted by Brenco, being discounted the amount budgeted by Brasilagro to perform this activity from the amount to be paid by Brenco to Brasilagro, due to this Agreement”.

 

2. RATIFICATIONS OF THE OTHER PROVISIONS IN THE AGREEMENT

 

2.1 All other provisions included in the Agreement which have not been expressly altered by this Third Amendment remain ratified.

 

3. GENERAL PROVISIONS

 

3.1 Each of the Parties may propose changes in the contractual provisions of this Third Amendment, and should they agree with the new provisions, the Parties shall execute new amendment to the Agreement in written instrument, signed by both Parties, which shall integrate the Agreement for all legal effects.

 

3.2 In case of rights and obligations arising from the Agreement and/or this Third Amendment which, for their nature, maintain their effectiveness and validity in force for a period after the termination or rescission of the Agreement, these shall survive to the termination or rescission of the Agreement, for the valid period prescribed to them.

 

3.3 Should any term and/or condition of this Third Amendment be stated null, invalid or unenforceable by any court, such fact shall not affect the validity, legality and enforceability of any remaining contractual provision, which shall remain in force and produce effects as if the invalidated party had never been herein included, from its execution.

 

3.4 The tolerance or compromise, by any of the Parties, to the failure to comply with any term of this Third Amendment, shall not be considered as waiver by that Party in requiring the compliance with any other provision therein or in the Agreement, and shall not be considered as novation or tolerance for the noncompliance with any past, present or future obligation, related to the term whose noncompliance has been tolerated.

 

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3.5 Any notice or communication from one Party to the other in relation to the execution of this Third Amendment shall be in writing, and shall be considered valid if delivered in hands with acknowledge of receipt or if remitted by fax with confirmation of receipt or registered letter with Acknowledgment of Receipt (AR), in the following addresses:

 

If addressed to BRASILAGRO:

Name:

   Gustavo Javier Lopez

Title:

   Administrative Director

C/c:

   Legal Department

Address:

   Av. Brigadeiro Faria Lima, n° 1.309 – 5° andar
   Zip Code 01452-002 – São Paulo- SP

Fax:

   (11) 3035-5366

e-mail:

   gustavo.lopez@brasil-agro.com

If addressed to BRENCO:

Name:

   Fabiano Zillo

Title:

   Agro Industrial Superintendent

Address:

   RODOVIA GO 341, KM 67 TO THE RIGHT 13 KM, N/N
   Zip Code 75.830-000 – Mineiros - GO

Fax:

   (64) 3672 5300

e-mail:

   fabianozillo@eth.com

 

3.6 This Third Amendment constitutes obligations hereunder bind the Parties on their behalf and on behalf of their successors of any title.

 

3.7 The terms started in capital letters not defined in this Third Amendment have the meaning attributed to them in the Agreement.

 

3.8 This Third Amendment constitutes the full agreement between the Parties on its purpose and revokes any other prior understandings about it.

 

4. FORUM

 

4.1 This Third Amendment shall be governed and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the Federative Republic of Brazil and the Parties elect the courts of the city of São Paulo, State of São Paulo, to resolve any doubts or controversies resulting from this Amendment, with the exclusion of all others, however privileged they maybe.

 

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In witness whereof, the Parties sign this instrument in 03 (three) counterparts of same content and form, in the presence of two undersigned witnesses in order to produce all legal effects

São Paulo, October 11, 2010.

BRASILAGRO – COMPANHIA BRASILEIRA DE PROPRIEDADES AGRÍCOLAS

 

 

Gustavo Javier Lopez

  

 

André Guillaumon

Administrative Director    Operations Director

BRENCO – COMPANHIA BRASILEIRA DE ENERGIA RENOVÁVEL

 

By  

 

   By   

 

 

Witnesses:     

1.

  

2.

Name:

   Name:

CPF:

   CPF

RG:

   RG:

 

 

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THIRD AMENDMENT TO THE AGREEMENT OF SUGARCANE SUPPLY

 

 

EXHIBIT I – TABLE OF PRICES

 

 

 

Price of the service by distance

 

Distance

(km)

    

Freight

(R$/t)

    

CC

(R$/t)

    

CCT

Total

(R$/t)

 

Inf

  

Sup

                      

  0

     5         2.58         13.90         16.48   

  5.1

     10         3.44         13.90         17.34   

10.1

     15         4.01         13.90         17.91   

15.1

     20         4.71         13.90         18.61   

20.1

     25         5.25         13.90         19.15   

25.1

     30         5.99         13.90         19.89   

30.1

     35         6.74         13.90         20.64   

35.1

     40         7.39         13.90         21.29   

40.1

     45         8.21         13.90         22.11   

45.1

     50         8.82         13.90         22.72   

50.1

     55         10.21         13.90         24.11   

55.1

     60         10.92         13.90         24.82   

60.1

     65         11.85         13.90         25.75   

65.1

     70         12.59         13.90         26.49   

70.1

     75         13.38         13.90         27.28   

 

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