undertakes to limit exports of the products in the categoryconcerned to the Community or to the region or regions ofthe Community market specified by the Community for a Article 9provisional period of three months from the date on whichthe request for consultations is made . Such provisional limitshall be established at 25 % of the level of imports reached 1. Where the Community ascertains that the level ofduring the calendar year preceding that in which imports imports in a given category of Group I subject to quantitativeexceeded the level resulting from the application of the limits set out in Annex II exceeds in any Agreement year theformula set out in paragraph 2 , and gave rise to the request level of imports in the preceding year by 10 % of the level offor consultations or 25 % of the level resulting from the the quantitative limit set out in Annex II for the currentapplication of the formula set out in paragraph 2 , whichever Agreement year , it may request , with a view to avoidingis the higher . palpable damage to domestic industry , the opening of consultations in accordance with the provisions described in4. Should the Parties be unable in the course of Article 17 with a view to reaching agreement on :consultations to reach a satisfactory solution within the — the suspension , wholly or in part , of the provisions ofperiod specified in Article 17 , the Community shall have the Article 7 , orright to introduce a definitive quantitative limit at an annuallevel not lower than the level resulting from the application of — a modification of the quantitative limit set out in Annex IIthe formula set out in paragraph 2 , or 106 % of the level of by the establishment of an ad hoc limit below the existing imports reached during the calendar year preceding that in quantitative limit ,which imports exceeded the level resulting from the — as well as the corresponding equitable and quantifiable application of the formula set out in paragraph 2 and gave compensation which constitutes a mutually acceptable rise to the request for consultations , whichever is the solution . higher. 2. The Community shall authorize the importation of The annual level so fixed shall be revised upwards after products of the said category shipped from Egypt before the