(a) The application of security laws and regulations; (b) The control of arms, ammunitions and other military items and equipment; (c) The protection of human, animal or plant health or life, or the protection of public morality; (d) Export of strategic minerals and precious stones; (e) The protection of national treasures of artistic or archaeological value or the protection of industrial, commercial and intellectual property; (f) The control of hazardous wastes, nuclear materials, radio-active products or any other material used in the development or exploitation of nuclear energy; (g) Protection of infant industries; (h) The control of strategic product; and (i) Goods imported from a third country to which a Member State applies total prohibition relating to country of origin. 2. The prohibitions or restrictions referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article shall in no case be used as a means of arbitrary discrimination or a disguised restriction on trade between Member States. 3. Where a Member State encounters balance-of-payments difficulties arising from the application of the provisions of this Chapter, that Member State may be allowed by the competent organ of the Community, provided that it has taken all appropriate reasonable steps to overcome the difficulties, to impose, for the sole purpose of overcoming such difficulties, quantitative or similar restrictions or prohibitions on goods originating in the other Member States for such period as shall be determined by the competent organ of the Community. 4. For the purpose of protecting an infant or strategic industry, a Member State may be allowed by the competent organ of the Community, provided it has taken all appropriate reasonable steps to protect such industry, to impose, for the sole purpose of protecting such industry, quantitative or similar restrictions or prohibitions, on similar goods originating in the other Member States for such period as shall be determined by the competent organ of the Community. 5. Where the imports of a particular product by a Member State from another Member State increase in a way that causes, or is likely to cause, serious damage to the economy of the importing states. The latter may be allowed by the competent organ of the Community to apply safeguard measures for a specified period. 6. The Council shall keep under regular review the operation of any quantitative or similar restrictions or prohibitions imposed pursuant to paragraphs 13, and 4 of this Article and shall take appropriate action in this 27