be valid for six months from the date of their issue for imports throughout the customs territory to which the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community is applied. However, where the Community has recourse to the provisions of Article 8 in accordance with the provisions of Agreed Minute No 1, or to the Agreed Minute No 2, the products covered by the import licences can only be put into free circulation in the regions(s) of the Community indicated in those licences.`2.11. The second and fifth indents of Article 14 (2) of Protocol A are replaced by the following: '- two letters identifying the intended Member State of customs clearance as follows: BL = Benelux, DE = Germany, DG = Denmark, EL = Greece, ES = Spain, FR = France, GB = United Kingdom, IE = Ireland, IT = Italy, PT = Portugal`, '- a five-digit number running consecutively from 00001 to 99999 allocated to the intended Member State of customs clearance.`2.12. The export licence form for categories subject to a double-checking system of surveillance bearing the indication 'non-restrained textile category` set out in Appendix 2 to this letter shall be added to Protocol A of the Agreement. 2.13. Agreed Minute N° 1 set out in Appendix 3 to this letter shall form an integral part of the Agreement. 2.14. Agreed Minute N° 2 set out in Appendix 4 to this letter shall form an integral part of the Agreement. 2.15. Agreed Minute N° 3 set out in Appendix 5 to this letter shall form an integral part of the Agreement. 3. The Parties agreed that this Agreement in the form of an exchange of letters shall enter into force on the first day of the month following the day on which the Parties have notified each other that the legal procedures necessary to this end have been completed. The Parties also agreed that this Agreement in the form of an exchange of letters and the amendments hereby to the Agreement of 1987, as extended, shall be applied provisionally from 1 January 1993. 4. I should be obliged if you kindly confirm the acceptance of your Government of the foregoing. Please accept, Sir, the assurance of my highest consideration. For the Councilof the European CommunitiesAppendix 1 (The contents of Appendix 1 are identical to those of Appendix 1 to the Agreement with Singapore; see pages 16 to 42) Appendix 2 ANNEX TO PROTOCOL A Appendix 3 Agreed Minute N° 1In the context of the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the People's Republic of Bangladesh on trade in textile and clothing products, initialled on 17 December 1992, the Parties agreed that Article 8 of the Agreement does not preclude the Community, if the conditions are fulfilled, from applying the safeguard measures for one or more of its regions in conformity with the principles of the internal market. In such an event, Bangladesh shall be informed in advance of the relevant provisions of Protocol A to the Agreement to be applied, as appropriate. For the Governmentof the People's Republic of BangladeshFor the Councilof the European CommunitiesAppendix 4 Agreed Minute N° 2Notwithstanding Article 12 (1) of this Agreement, for imperative technical or administrative reasons or to find a solution to economic problems resulting from regional concentration of imports, or in order to combat circumvention and fraud of the provisions of this Agreement, the Community will establish for a limited period of time a specific management system in conformity with the principles of the internal market. However, if the Parties are unable to reach a satisfactory solution during the consultations provided for in Article 12 (3), Bangladesh undertakes, if so requested by the Community, to respect temporary export limits for one or more regions of the Community. In such a case, these limits shall not preclude the importation into the region(s) concerned of products which were shipped from Bangladesh on the basis of export licences obtained before the date of formal notification to Bangladesh by the Community about the introduction of the above limits. The Community shall inform Bangladesh of the technical and administrative measures, such as defined in the attached note verbale, that need to be introduced by both Parties in order to implement the above paragraphs in conformity with the principles of the internal market. For the Governmentof the People's Republic of BangladeshFor the Councilof the European CommunitiesNote verbale The Directorate-General for External Relations of the Commission of the European Communities presents its compliments to the Mission of the People's Republic of Bangladesh to the European Communities and has the honour to refer to the Agreement on textile products negotiated between the People's Republic of Bangladesh and the Community applied since 1 January 1987, as extended by the exchange of letters initialled on 12 December 1991 and as further extended by the exchange of letters of 17 December 1992. The Directorate-General wishes to inform the Mission of the People's Republic of Bangladesh that the Community has decided