quantitative limit established under this Agreement for the — for categories of products in Group III 5,0% ,current or the following year . it may request the opening of consultations in accordance with the procedure described in Article 17 , with a view to Article 7 reaching agreement on an appropriate restraint level for the products in such category .1. In any agreement year , advance use of a portion of thequantitative limit established for the following agreement The Community shall authorize the importation of productsyear is be authorized for each category of products up to 5 % of the said category shipped from the Philippines beforeof the quantitative limit for the current agreement year . the date on which the request for consultations was submitted .Amounts delivered in advance shall be deducted fromthe corresponding quantitative limits established for the 3. Pending a mutually satisfactory solution , thefollowing agreement year. Philippines undertakes to limit exports of the products in the ---pagebreak--- N ? L 245 / 50 Jornal Oficial das Comunidades Europeias 29 . 8 . 86category concerned to the Community or to the region or Article 9regions of the Community market specified by theCommunity for a provisional period of three months from 1. Where the Community ascertains that the level ofthe date on which the request for consultations is made . Such imports in a given category of Group I subject to quantitativeprovisional limit shall be established at 25 % of the level of limits set out in Annex II exceeds in any agreement year theimports reached during the calendar year preceding that in level of imports in the preceding year by 10 % of the level ofwhich imports exceeded the level resulting from the the quantitative limit set out in Annex II for the currentapplication of the formula set out in paragraph 2 , and gave agreement year, it may request with a view to avoidingrise to the request for consultation or 25% of the level palpable damage to domestic industry the opening of