1. In any agreement year, advance use of a portion of the reaching agreement on an appropriate restraint level for thequantitative limit established for the following agreement products in each category . ---pagebreak--- 29 . 8 . 86 Jornal Oficial das Comunidades Europeias N ? L 245 / 293The Community shall authorize the importation of products 11 . The provisions of this Agreement which concernof the said category shipped from Thailand before the date on exports of products subject to the quantitative limitswhich the request for consultations was submitted . established in Annex II shall also apply to products for which quantitative limits are introduced under this Article .3. Pending a mutually satisfactory solution , Thailandundertakes to limit exports of the products in the categoryconcerned to the Community or to the region or regions of Article 9the Community market specified by the Community for aprovisional period of three months from the date on whichthe request for consultations is made . Such provisional limit 1. Where the Community ascertains that the level ofshall be established at 25 % of the level of imports reached imports in a given category of Group I subject to quantitativeduring the calendar year preceding that in which imports limits set out in Annex II exceeds in any agreement year theexceeded the level resulting from the application of the level of imports in the preceding year by 10 % of the level offormula set out in paragraph 2 , and gave rise to the request the quantitative limit set out in Annex II for the currentfor consultation or 25 % of the level resulting from the agreement year , it may request the opening of consultationsapplication of the formula set out in paragraph 2 , whichever in accordance with the provisions described in Article 17is the higher. with a view to reaching agreement on :4. Should the Parties be unable in the course of — the suspension , wholly or in part , of the provisions of Article 7 , orconsultations to reach a satisfactory solution within theperiod specified in Article 17 , the Community shall have the — a modification of the quantitative limit set out in Annex IIright to introduce a definitive quantitative limit at an annual by the establishment of an ad hoc limit below the existinglevel not lower than the level resulting from the application of quantitative limit ,the formula set out in paragraph 2 , or 106 % of the level ofimports reached during the calendar year preceding that in as well as the corresponding equitable and quantifiable