Parties agreed that the USSR , with regard to Article 2 ( 2) of the Agreement, in administering the quantitative limits shall ensure the following. As regards categories 1 , 2 , 2a and 3 , to reserve for the year 1990, as a priority, 30 % ofthe quantitative limits concerned for industry users during a period beginning on 1 January and ending on 20 of March . For this purpose, contracts concluded with the industry during the period in question shall be taken into consideration . To this end, the firms concerned are invited to make direct contact with the relevant USSR enterprises as early as possible during the above reservation period, in order to make their purchasing intentions known . Head of the Delegation of the Head of the Delegation of the European Economic Community Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Agreed Minute In the context of the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on trade in textile products initialled on 11 December 1989 , the USSR expressed its concern over the type and scope of economic outward processing operations referred to in Article 4 (4) of the Agreement. The Community informed the USSR that the provisions on economic outward processing in force in the Community refer to Council Regulation (EEC) No 636 / 82 of 16 March 1982 . Economic outward processing is a special form of industrial cooperation . It is intended in particular to enable the textile and clothing industry to adapt to the conditions of international competition . The quantities of products reimported into the Community under economic outward processing should not exceed the agreed limits . The Community assured the USSR that in the event of any future modification of Regulation ( EEC ) No 636 / 82, the Community will take all necessary measures in order to ensure that this modification shall not have any substantial adverse effect on the industrial cooperation which could be established on the basis of the above Regulation . Head of the Delegation of the Head of the Delegation of the European Economic Community Union of Soviet Socialist Republics