Notwithstanding the usual annual timetable provided for in Regulation (EC) No 501/2008, for information and promotion programmes for milk and milk products aimed at the internal market submitted by trade organisations in the sector to the Member States before 15 October 2009, derogations shall be made as follows from the said timetable:
(a)
notwithstanding Article 11(1), first paragraph, the Member States shall send the Commission a provisional list of the programmes selected by 31 October at the latest;
(b)
notwithstanding Article 11(3), second paragraph, the Commission shall decide by 15 December at the latest which programmes it is able to co-finance.