quantitative limit established under this Agreement for the — for categories of products in Group II 2,5% ,current or the following year . — for categories of products in Group III 5 % Article 7 it may request the opening of consultations in accordance with the procedure described in Article 17 , with a view to1. In any Agreement year advance use of a portion of the reaching agreement on an appropriate restraint level for thequantitative limit established for the following Agreement products in such category . ---pagebreak--- N ? L 293 / 230 Jornal Oficiai das Comunidades Europeias 16 . 10 . 86The Community shall authorize the importation of products this Article shall apply on the basis of the annual statisticsof the said category shipped from Malaysia before the date on previously communicated by the Community .which the request for consultations was submitted . 11 . The provisions of this Agreement which concern3. Pending a mutually satisfactory solution , Malaysia exports of products subject to the quantitative limitsundertakes to limit exports of the products in the category established in Annex II shall also apply to products for whichconcerned to the Community or to the region or regions of quantitative limits are introduced under this Article .the Community market specified by the Community for aprovisional period of three months from the date on whichthe request for consultations is made . Such provisional limit Article 9shall be established at 25 % of the level of imports reachedduring the calendar year preceding that in which imports 1. Where the Community ascertains that the level ofexceeded the level resulting from the application of the imports in a given category of Group I subject to quantitativeformula set out in paragraph 2 , and gave rise to the request limits set out in Annex II exceeds in any Agreement year thefor consultation or 25 % of the level resulting from the level of imports in the preceding year by 10 % of the level ofapplication of the formula set out in paragraph 2 , whichever the quantitative limit set out in Annex II for the currentis the higher . Agreement year , it may request with a view to avoiding