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this Agreement can be found which seem likely to prove effective, the applicani contracting party maf, after informing, and when practicable consulting with, the CONTRACTING PARTIES, adopt such other measures as the situation may require pending a determination by the CONTRACTING PARTIES, provided that such measures do not reduce imports below the level obtaining in the most recent representative period preceding the date on which the contracting party's original notification was made under paragraph 2 of this Article. 5. (a) In the case of measures referred to in paragraph 3of this Article, the CONTRACTING PARTIES shall, at the earliest opportunity but ordinarily within fifteen days after receipt of the statement referred to in paragraph 2 (a) of this Article, advise the applicant contracting party of the date by which they will notify it whether or not they concur in principle in the proposed measure, with or without modification. (b) In . the case of measures referred to in paragraph 4 of this Article, the CONTRACTING PARTIES shall, as in sub-paragraph (a) of this paragraph, advise the applicant contracting party of the date by which they will notify it whether or not it is released from such, obligation or obligations as may be relevant: Provided that, if the applicant contracting party does not receive a final reply by the date fixed by the CONTRACTING PARTIES, it may, after. communicating with the CONTRACTING PARTIES, institute the proposed measure upon the expiration of a further thirty days from such date. 6. Any contracting .party may maintain any non-discriminatory measure, in force on September 1, 1947, which has been imposed for the establishment, development, or reconstruction of particular industries or particular branches of agriculture and which is not 6therwise : permitted by this Agreement: Provided that any such contracting party shall have notified the other contracting parties,, not later than October 10, 1947, of each product on which any such existing measure is to be maintained and of the nature and purpose of such measure. Any contracting party maintaining any such measure shall, within sixty days of becoming a contracting party, notify the CONTRACTING PARTIES of the measure concerned, the considerations in support of its maintenance and the period for which it wishes- to maintain the measure. The CONTRACTING PARTIES shall, as soon as possible, but in any case within twelve months from the day on which such contracting party becomes a contracting party, examine and give a decision concerning the measure as if it had been submitted to the CONTRACTING PARTIES for their concurrence under the provisions of the preceding paragraphs of this Article. The CONTRACTING PARTIES, in making a decision under this paragraph specifying a date by which any modification in or withdrawal of the measure is to be made, shall have regard to the possible need of a contracting party for a suitable period of time in which to make such modification or withdrawal. 7. The provisions of paragraph 6 of this Article shall not apply, in respect of any contracting party, to any product described in the appropriate Schedule annexed to this Agreement.