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If the Commission considers that amendments to this Directive are necessary in order to ensure the protection of public health, it shall adopt those amendments. Those measures, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Directive, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 14(2). On imperative grounds of urgency, the Commission may have recourse to the urgency procedure referred to in Article 14(3). The Member State which has adopted safeguard measures may, in that event, retain them until the amendments have been adopted.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-10 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.