6. Quantitative limits may also be established by the level of exports reached during the preceding calendar Community on a regional basis in accordance with the year . provisions of Protocol C. 3. A quantitative limit modified as a result of the application of paragraph 1 in any year preceding the final 7. The annual growth rate for the quantitative limits Agreement year shall be subject to a growth rate so as to introduced under this Article shall be determined in ensure that the level of the quantitative limit set out in Annex accordance with the provisions of Protocol D. II for the final Agreement year is regained in that year . 8. The provisions of this Article shall not apply where the 4. Should the Parties be unable in the course of percentages specified in paragraph 2 have been reached as a consultations to reach a satisfactory solution within the result of fall in total imports into the Community , and not as period specified in Article 17 , Malaysia undertakes , if so a result of an increase in exports of products originating in requested by the Community : Malaysia . — to supend wholly or in part , the provisions of Article 7 in 9. In the event of the provisions of paragraph 2 , 3 or 4 respect of the Community or any of its regions for the category concerned , or being applied , Malaysia undertakes to issue export licences for products covered by contracts concluded before the — to modify the quantitative limit set out in Annex II for the introduction of the quantitative limit , up to the volume of the category concerned so as to restrain exports to the quantitative limit fixed . Community or any of its regions to 125% of imports attained during the preceding calendar year , or to the 10 . Up to the date of communication of the statistics level of exports up to the date of the request for referred to in Article 10(6 ), the provisions of paragraph 2 of consultations plus the level of exports provided for