in accordance with the provisions of Protocol A. 2. Where the Community authorities have evidence that imports of textile products have been set off against a quantitative limit established under this Agreement, but that the products have subsequently been re-exported outside the Community, the authorities concerned shall inform the Macao authorities within four weeks of the quantities involved and authorize imports of identical quantities of the same products, which shall not be set off against the quantitative limit established under this Agreement for the current or the following year. Article 7 1. In any one Agreement year advance use of a portion of the quantitative limit established for the following Agreement year may be agreed following consultations in accordance with the procedures referred to in Article 16, paragraph 1 for each category of products between 1 % and 5 % of the quantitative limit for the current Agreement year. Amounts delivered in advance shall be deducted from the corresponding quantitative limits established for the following Agreement year. 2. Carryover to the corresponding quantitative limit for the following Agreement year of amounts not used during any one Agreement year may be agreed following consultations in accordance with the procedures referred to in Article 16, paragraph 1 for each category of product between 2 % and 7 % of the quantitative limit for the current Agreement year. 3. Transfers in respect of categories in Group I shall not be made from any categories except as follows: - transfers between categories 2 and 3 may be made for any Agreement year up to 4 % of the quantitative limit for the category to which the transfer is made, - transfers between categories 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 may be made for any Agreement year up to 4 % of the quantitative limit for the category to which the transfer is made. Transfers into any category in Groups II and III may be made from any category or categories in Groups I, II and III for any Agreement year up to 5 % of the quantitative limit for the category to which the transfer is made. The table of equivalence applicable to such transfers is given in Annex I to this Agreement. 4. The increase in any category of products resulting from the cumulative application of the provisions in paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 above during an Agreement year shall not exceed 12 %. 5. Prior notification shall be given by the authorities of Macao in the event of recourse to the provisions of paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 above. Article 8 1. Exports of textile products not listed in Annex II to this Agreement may be made subject to quantitative limits by Macao on the conditions laid down in the following paragraphs. 2. Where the Community finds, under the system of administrative control set up, that the level of imports of products in a given category not listed in Annex II originating in Macao exceeds, in relation to the preceding year's total imports into the Community from all sources of products in that category, the following rates: - 0,4 % for categories of products in Group I, - 2 % for categories of products in Group II, - 6 % for categories of products in Group III. It may request the opening of consultations in accordance with the procedure described in Article 16 (1) of this Agreement, with a view to reaching agreement on an appropriate restraint level for the products in such category. The Community shall authorize the importation of products of the said category shipped from Macao before the date on which the request for consultations was submitted. 3. Pending a mutually satisfactory solution, Macao undertakes to limit exports of the products in the category concerned to the Community or to the regions of the Community market specified by the Community for a provisional period of three months from the date on which the request for consultations is made. Such provisional limit shall be established at 25 % of the level of imports reached during the calendar year preceding that in which imports exceeded the level resulting from the application of the formula set out in paragraph 2, and gave rise to the request for consultation or 25 % of the level resulting from the application of the formula set out in paragraph 2, whichever is the higher. However, in exceptionally grave circumstances following a request by the Community and pending a mutually satisfactory solution, Macao undertakes to suspend at a level indicated by the Community exports of the products in the category concerned to the Community or to the regions of the Community market specified by the Community. 4. Should the Parties be unable in the course of consultations to reach a satisfactory solution within the period specified in Article 16 of the Agreement, the Community shall have the right to introduce a definitive quantitative limit at an annual level not lower than the level resulting from the application of the formula set out in paragraph 2, or 106 % of the level of imports reached during the calendar year preceding that in which imports exceeded the level resulting from the application of the formula set out in paragraph 2 and gave rise to the request for consultations whichever is the