Carryover to the corresponding quantitative limit for the following Agreement year of amounts not used duringany one Agreement year may be agreed following consultations in accordance with the procedures referred to in Article 14 (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 Hong Kong in the event of recourse to the provisions of paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 above.6. Hong Kong shall provide the Community with export data showing the amounts of carryover available in any Agreement year. If substantial statistical differences exist between the export data from which the amount to be carried over is calculated and the Community's data, the Community may, within the first 120 days of the following Agreement year, request consultations in accordance with the procedures referred to in Article 14 (1) on the amounts involved. Any such request shall be accompanied by full particulars of the alleged statistical differences. Where such a request is made, the portions carried over shall not be used until the parties have completed consultations. If no such request is made within a 120-day period, the portion carried over shall be presumed to have been calculated correctly.Article 71. Given the desire of both parties to eliminate real risks of market disruption, and in view of the well-established and effective Hong Kong system of export authorization, the following procedures shall apply.2. Exports of textile products described in the categories listed in Annex I which are not subject to quantitative limits in Annex II shall be subject to the issue of export authorizations.3. In respect of textile products covered by export authorizations mentioned in paragraph 2 above, theCommunity may request consultations in accordance with the procedure described in Article 14 (1) with a view to establishing a quantitative limit.4. Until a mutually acceptable conclusion has been arrived at by means of such consultation, Hong Kong undertakes, if so requested, to suspend from the date of receipt of the request for consultation, the issue of export authorizations for the product or products in any category concerned, and to inform the Community forthwith of the level of quantities covered by export authorizations issued at the time of suspension. The Community shall accept exports from Hong Kong of the product or products concerned in respect of export authorizations issued prior to the receipt of the request for suspension.5. Should the parties be unable in the course of consultations held in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 3 to reach a mutually acceptable solution, Hong Kong undertakes, if so requested by the Community, to limit exports of the product or products in the category in question for the Agreement year in which the request for consultations is made to an annual level not lower than the highest of the following:(a) the level of imports into the Community in 1985 of products originating in Hong Kong in that category;(b) the level resulting from the application of paragraph 8 below;(c) the level resulting from the application of paragraph 9 below;(d) 106 % of the level of exports reached during the calendar year preceding that in which the level of export authorizations issued by Hong Kong exceeded the level resulting from the application of paragraphs 8 and 9 and gave rise to the request for consultations; or(e) the level of export authorizations already issued at the time of suspension.6. The annual growth rate for the quantitative limits introduced under this Article shall be determined during the course of the consultations referred to in paragraph 3 above.7. The provisions of this Article may be invoked by the Community at a regional level.8. The Community undertakes not to invoke the provisions of paragraph 3 of this Article before the level of export authorizations for textile products mentioned in paragraph 2 in any category exceeds, in relation to the preceding year's total imports into the Community of products in that category, the following rates:- for categories of products in Group I:0,4 %,- for categories of products in Group II:2,0 %,- for categories of products in Group III:6,0 %.9. The Community further undertakes