Council Regulation (EC) No 880/2009 of 7 September 2009 concerning the implementation of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Community and Brazil pursuant to Article XXIV:6 and Article XXVIII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1994 relating to the modification of concessions in the schedules of the Republic of Bulgaria and Romania in the course of their accession to the European Union, amending and supplementing Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff

In Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87, Annex 7 entitled ‘WTO tariff quotas to be opened by the competent Community authorities’, to Section III of Part Three of Annex I, the quotas with Order Numbers 10, 14, 28, 31, 101 and 103 shall be replaced by the quotas with the same Order Numbers shown in the Annex to this Regulation.

By way of derogation from Article 153(3) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007, for the quotas with the Order Numbers 101 and 103 as set out in the Annex to this Regulation, the three-month period for the marketing year 2009/2010 shall start from 1 October 2009, or from the first day of application of this Regulation, whichever is the later.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. This Regulation shall apply as from 1 October 2009. However, should the signed letter from Brazil referred to in the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters approved by Decision 2009/718/EC not be received before that date, the Commission shall publish a notice in the C series of the Official Journal of the European Union to that effect. In that case, this Regulation shall apply from the day following the publication in the Official Journal of the European Union of the detailed rules to be adopted by the Commission for the implementation of the tariff quotas referred to in Article 1 of this Regulation pursuant to Article 2 of Decision 2009/718/EC.