The annual level so fixed shall be revised upwards after products of the said category shipped from Egypt before the consultations in accordance with the procedure referred to in date on which the request for consultations was Article 17 , with a view to fulfilling the conditions set out in submitted . paragraph 2 , should the trend of total imports into the Community of the product in question make this Pending a mutually satisfactory solution , Egypt undertakes necessary . for a period of one month from the date of notification of the request for consultations to limit exports of the products in 5. The limits introduced under paragraph 2 or para­ the category concerned to the Community or to the region or graph 4 may in no case be lower than the level of imports of regions of the Community market specified by the products in that category originating in Egypt in 1980 . Community to one-twelfth of the level of exports reached during the preceding calendar year . 6. Quantitative limits may also be established by the 3. A quantitative limit modified as a result of the Community on a regional basis in accordance with the application of paragraph 1 in any year preceding the final provisions of Protocol C. Agreement year shall be subject to an equal annual rate so as to ensure that the level of the quantitative limit set out in 7. The annual growth rate for the quantitative limits Annex II for the final Agreement year is regained in the introduced under this Article shall be determined in year . accordance with the provisions of Protocol D. 4. Should the Parties be unable in the course of 8. The provisions of this Article shall not apply where the consultations to reach a satisfactory solution within the percentages specified in paragraph 2 have been reached as a period specified in Article 17 , Egypt undertakes , if so result of a fall in total imports into the Community , and not requested by the Community : as a result of an increase in exports of products originating in