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The following actions shall be eligible for financial assistance in order to allow access to equipment and transport resources under the Union Mechanism: providing and sharing information on equipment and transport resources that Member States decide to make available, with a view to facilitating the pooling of such equipment or transport resources; assisting Member States to identify, and facilitating their access to, transport resources that may be available from other sources, including the commercial market; assisting Member States to identify equipment that may be available from other sources, including the commercial market; and financing transport resources necessary for ensuring a rapid response to disasters. Such actions shall be eligible for financial support only if the following criteria are met: a request for assistance has been made under the Union Mechanism in accordance with Articles 15 and 16; the additional transport resources are necessary for ensuring the effectiveness of disaster response under the Union Mechanism; the assistance corresponds to the needs identified by the ERCC and is delivered in accordance with the recommendations given by the ERCC on the technical specifications, quality, timing and modalities for delivery; the assistance has been accepted by a requesting country, directly or through the United Nations or its agencies, or a relevant international organisation, under the Union Mechanism; and the assistance complements, for disasters in third countries, any overall Union humanitarian response.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-06 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.