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QUOTAS RELATING TO PRODUCTS OTHER THAN THOSE IN GROUP1, THE SAME FORMULE WILL BE USED AS IN THE FIXING OF A 'BUTOR",

IN CONNECTION WITH A COMMUNITY CEILING, FOR THOSE MEMBER STATES WHICH HAVE NOT YET USED UP THEIR THRORETICAL SHARES (1.E. THE FORMULA APPEARING IN THE SECOND INDENT OF CHAPTER 111 A.2.) ABOVE.

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IV. PARTICULARLY SENSITIVE PRODUCTS AT REGIONAL LEVEL

AS REGARDS PRODUCTS WHICH ACHIEVE A HIGH DEGREE OF PENETRATION IN CERTAIN COMMUNITY REGIONS SUCH THAT, IF THE SAME HAD OCCURRED AT COMMUNITY LEVEL, THE INCLUSION OF THESE PRODUCTS IN GROUP 1 WOULD HAVE BEEN JUSTIFIED, THE COMMUNITY WILL ENSURE THAT PENETRATION RATES ARE STABILIZED

IN THE SAME WAY AS FOR GROUP 1 PRODUCTS BY MEANS OF THE FOLLOWING MEASURES:

WHERE THE CONDITIONS FOR FIXING A QUOTA ARE PRESENT, THE MEMBER STATE CONCERNED WILL, AS A LARGE IMPORTER, BEAR ONLY A VERY LIMITED INCREASE IN IMPORTS, FOLLOWING THE NORMAL SYSTEM OF THE BURDEN-SHARING FORMULA:

WHERE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CRITERIA ADOPTED A COMMUNITY CEILING IS TO BE INTRODUCED, THE MEMBER STATE CONCERNED, WHICH WILL, IN MOST CASES, HAVE EXCEEDED ITS THEORETICAL SHARE, WILL BENEFIT UNDER A 'BUTOIR' WHICH WILL ALLOW ONLY A VERY LIMITED INCREASE IN IMPORTS: NEVERTHELESS, IF WITH - RESPECT TO A PARTICULAR SUPPLIER COUNTRY IT HAS NOT USED UP

ITS THEORETICAL SHARE, ITS ''BUTOIR'' WILL CORRESPOND TO THE VOLUME REACHED IN 1976, INCREASED ANNUALLY FROM 1978 BY 59

OF ITS THEORETICAL SHARE:

WHERE THE PRODUCT IN QUESTION IS SUBJECT TO THE BASKET’'

SYSTEM, THE MEMBER STATE WILL BE ABLE TO ASK FOR THE

INTRODUCTION OF A REGIONAL RESTRICTION REGARDING ANY SUPPLIER

COUNTRY, PROVIDED THAT IT FULFILS' 25% OF ITS THEORETICAL SHARE OF 19/5% RESPECTIVELY, CONSTITUTING THE THRESHOLDS FOR THE COMMUNITY AS SUCH (SEE CHAPTER 111, A3 (E)(11)).

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