accordance with the provisions of Protocol D. 4. Should the Parties be unable in the course of8. The provisions of this Article shall not apply where thepercentages specified in paragraph 2 have been reached as a consultations to reach a satisfactory solution within the period specified in Article 17 , Thailand undertakes , if soresult of a fall in total imports into the Community , and notas a result of an increase in exports of products originating in requested by the Community:Thailand . — to suspend wholly or in part the provisions of Article 7 in respect of the Community or any of its regions for the9. Should the provisions of paragraphs 2 , 3 or 4 be category concerned , orapplied , Thailand undertakes to issue export licences forproducts covered by contracts concluded before the — to modify the quantitative limit set out in Annex II for theintroduction of the quantitative limit, up to the volume of the category concerned so as to restrain exports to thequantitative limit fixed . Community or any of its regions to 125% of imports attained during the preceding calendar year , or to the10 . Up to the date of communication of the statistics level of exports up to the date of the request forreferred to in Article 10 ( 5 ), the provisions of paragraph 2 consultations plus the level of exports provided forshall apply on the basis of the annual statistics previously during the consultation period under paragraph 2 ,communicated by the Community . whichever is the higher. ---pagebreak--- N ? L 245 / 294 Jornal Oficial das Comunidades Europeias 29 . 8 . 86Should the provisions of this paragraph be applied , the The Community shall transmit to the Thai authorities import