26.9.2009 Official Journal of the European Union L 254/1 | (Acts adopted under the EC Treaty/Euratom Treaty whose publication is obligatory) REGULATIONS 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 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 133 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Whereas: (1) Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 (') established a goods nomenclature, hereinafter referred to as the ‘Combined Nomenclature’, and set out the conventional duty rates of the Common Customs Tariff. (2) By its Decision 2009/718/EC of 7 September 2009 (?) on the conclusion of an Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Community and Brazil, the Council approved, on behalf of the Community, the abovementioned Agreement with a view to closing negotiations initiated pursuant to Article XXIV:6 of GATT 1994. (3)  Pursuant to Article 153(3) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 of 22 October 2007 establishing a common organisation of agricultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agricultural products (%), full-time refiners in the Community enjoy a privileged access to sugar for refining during the first three months of the () OJ L 256, 7.9.1987, p. 1. (%) See page 104 of this Official Journal. () OJ L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1. marketing year 2009/2010, ie. from 1 October to 31 December 2009. In case that this Regulation should apply from a date later than 1 October 2009 and in order to guarantee the priority to full-time refiners in the marketing year 2009/2010, the start of the three- month period should be postponed until the first day of application of this Regulation. (4)  Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 should therefore be amended and supplemented accordingly, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 In Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87, Annex 7 entitled ‘WTO tariff quotas to be opened by the competent Community authorities’, to Section IIT 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. Article 2 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. Article 3 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.