• 1. If, in applying Article U 12, a list would have to be allocated more seats than there are candidates, the remaining seat or seats will, by continuing to apply that article, be transferred to one of the other lists of the group containing candidates to whom no seat has been allocated.

• 2. If seats remain to be allocated after application of the first paragraph, they will be allocated according to the system of the highest averages as referred to in Article U 9.