If the Community decides to apply quantitative restrictions to petroleum products, no matter whence they are imported, these restrictions may also be applied to imports of such products from the Netherlands Antilles. In such a case preferential treatment shall be granted to the Netherlands Antilles as compared with third countries.
To establish the principle of non-discrimination and to abolish quotas, all discriminatory provisions or practices have to be abolished. These might include the following: measures imposing, for imports only, maximum or minimum prices above or below which the imports would be prohibited, reduced or subject to conditions likely to make importing difficult; measures subjecting imports only to payment of a security or deposit; "buy national" incentives or measures laying down time limits that are inadequate or, on the other hand, excessive in relation to the normal procedure for carrying out the operations concerned; and measures giving national products preferential treatment over imports.
