1. In any Agreement year advance use of a portion of the restraint level for the products in each category .quantitative limit established for the following Agreementyear is authorized for each category of products up to 5 % of The Community shall authorize the importation of productsthe quantitative limit for the current Agreement year . of the said category shipped from Pakistan before the date on which the request for consultations was submitted .Amounts delivered in advance shall be deducted from thecorresponding quantitative limits established for the 3. Pending a mutually satisfactory solution , Pakistanfollowing Agreement year . undertakes to limit exports of the products in the category concerned to the Community or to the region or regions of2. Carryover to the corresponding quantitative limit for the Community market specified by the Community for athe following Agreement year of amounts not used during provisional period of three months from the date on whichany Agreement year is authorized for each category of the request for consultations is made . Such provisional limitproducts up to 5 % of the quantitative limit for the current shall be established at 25 % of the level of imports reachedAgreement year . during the calendar year preceding that in which imports ---pagebreak--- 29 . 8 . 86 Jornal Oficial das Comunidades Europeias N ? L 245 / 5 exceeded the level resulting from the application of the Agreement year the level of imports in the preceding year by formula set out in paragraph 2 , and gave rise to the request 10 % of the level of the quantitative limit set out in Annex II for consultation or 25% of the level resulting from the for the current Agreement year , it may request with a view to application of the formula set out in paragraph 2 , whichever avoiding palpable damage to domestic industry the opening is the higher. of consultations in accordance with the provisions described in Article 17 of this Agreement with a view to reaching 4. Should the Parties be unable in the course of agreement on : consultations to reach a satisfactory solution within the