23.2. Where, 12 months prior to 1 January 2027 or, if a mediation process has begun, on the expiry of the time limit provided for in the fifth paragraph of section 18, no contract referred to in the first paragraph of section 23.1 has been entered into by the producer and the Kativik Regional Government or the Aboriginal community of the northern village concerned, the producer must choose to(1) enter into a contract with any other person covering, as a minimum, the elements provided for in section 25, for the collection and transportation, in the territory of the northern village concerned, of the residual materials to which this Regulation applies, beginning on 1 January 2027; or
(2) beginning on 1 January 2027, undertake itself to collect and transport the residual materials to which this Regulation applies in the territory of the northern village concerned.