# Commission Decision of 8 August 2007 laying down rules for the implementation of the provisions on transport in Council Decision 2007/162/EC, Euratom establishing a Civil Protection Financial Instrument (notified under document number C(2007) 3769) (Text with EEA relevance) (2007/606/EC, Euratom), Article 3: Procedures applying to requests for support through the Mechanism for the transport of assistance and to related replies

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. The procedures provided for in Articles 4 and 5 shall apply whenever requests are made by participating States for support through the Mechanism in order to transport their civil protection assistance to an affected State, hereinafter ‘transport support’.
2. Where a request for transport support includes a request for financial support, the latter shall not be eligible for consideration by the Commission until the procedures referred to in Paragraph 1 have been completed.
3. Requests shall be issued by the competent authority referred to in Article 12 and sent to the Commission in writing. They shall contain the information provided for in Part A of the Annex.
4. All requests for transport support under this Decision and related replies and exchanges of information between the participating States and the Commission shall be transmit to and processed by the Monitoring and Information Centre of the Commission (MIC) established by Decision 2004/277/EC, Euratom.
5. Requests may be transmitted by telefax, electronic mail or through the common emergency communication and information system (CECIS) established by Decision 2004/277/EC, Euratom. Transmission of requests involving Community financing by telefax, electronic mail or CECIS are accepted provided that the originals signed by the competent authority are subsequently provided to the Commission without delay.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2007/606/article/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2007-606/article-3
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