imported under these tariff quotas each Member State shall, pending the final alignment of the national rates of duty of the Member States of the Community on those of the Common Customs Tariff, apply a customs duty for dried figs equal to the basic duty within the meaning of Article 14(1) of the Treaty establishing the Community, less half the reduction of duty which Member States of the Community allow to one another.If this Provisional Protocol should still be in force at the date when the national rates of duty of Member States are finally aligned on the Common Customs Tariff, the Community shall adopt, for dried figs, the tariff measures necessary to ensure that Turkey retains commercial advantages equivalent to those which it has under the preceding paragraph, taking into account the provisions of Article 3.(d) ex 08.05 - Nuts, fresh, or dried, shelled or not: hazelnutsBelgo-Luxembourg Economic Union // 540 metric tonsFederal Republic of Germany // 14500 metric tonsFrance // 1250 metric tonsNetherlands // 710 metric tonsEach Member State of the Community shall apply an ad valorem customs duty of 2.5% to products imported under this tariff quota.Furthermore, on the entry into force of this Agreement, the Member States of the Community shall abolish all intra-Community customs duties on this product and shall apply the Common Customs Tariff in its entirety.Article 3From the date of the final alignment of the national duties applied by Member States of the Community to products mentioned in Article 2 with those of the Common Customs Tariff, the Community shall each year open tariff quotas in favour of Turkey equal to the total of the national quotas open at the date of that final alignment. This procedure shall be implemented without prejudice to any decisions which may have been taken by the Council of Association pursuant to Article 4 in respect of the following calendar year.As regards hazelnuts, however, this procedure shall not be implemented until the national duties of Member States of the Community for all the three other products have been brought into line with those of the Common Customs Tariff.Article 4From the second year following the entry into force of this Agreement, the Council of Association may decide to increase the tariff quotas referred to in Articles 2 and 3. Unless the Council of Association should decide otherwise, these increases shall remain in force. Any increase shall take effect only from the beginning of the next calendar year.Article 5If this Agreement does not enter into force at the beginning of a calendar year, Member States of the Community shall, for the period from the date of entry into force of this Agreement until the beginning of the next calendar year, open tariff quotas of one twelfth of the tonnages mentioned in Article 2 for each month between the date of entry into force of this Agreement and the beginning of the next calendar year.From the date of entry into force of this Agreement, however, the Council of Association may decide to increase the tariff quotas opened pursuant to the preceding paragraph so as to take into account the seasonal nature of exports of the products in question.Article 6At the end of the third year after the entry into force of this Agreement, the Council of Association may take appropriate measures to promote the disposal on the Community market of products other than those mentioned in Article 2.Article 7Once a common agricultural policy has been introduced for tobacco, hazelnuts or dried figs, the Community shall take any measure necessary to ensure that Turkey retains export openings equivalent to those which it has under this Protocol, taking into account the arrangements laid down for that common agricultural policyArticle 8If the Community should open tariff quotas for products mentioned in Article 2 of this Protocol, Turkey shall not, as regards the rates of customs duty chargeable within the framework of those tariff quotas, be treated less favourably than a country which is not party to this Agreement.Article 9Turkey shall endeavour to extend to all Member States of the Community the most favourable treatment which it grants to one or more of them.Article 10From the beginning of the preparatory stage each Contracting Party may bring before the Council of Association any difficulties regarding the right of establishment, the provision of services, transport or competition. Where necessary, the Council of Association may put forward to the Contracting Parties any appropriate recommendations for the solution of such difficulties.Article 11This Protocol shall be annexed to the Agreement.PROTOCOL No 2Financial ProtocolTHE CONTRACTING PARTIES,DESIRING to promote the accelerated development of the Turkish economy in furtherance of the objectives of the Agreement of Association,HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:Article 1Requests for the financing of investment projects which will serve to increase the productivity of the Turkish economy and further the objectives of the Agreement of Association, and which are part of the Turkish development plan, may be submitted by the Turkish State and by Turkish undertakings to the European Investment Bank, which shall inform them of the action taken thereon.Article 2Projects for which requests are approved shall be financed by loans. These loans may be contracted