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A solidarity measure shall be taken as a last resort and shall apply only if the requesting Member State has: not been able to cover the deficit in gas supply to its solidarity protected customers despite the application of the measure referred to in Article 11(3); exhausted all market-based measures and all measures provided in its emergency plan; notified an explicit request to the Commission and to the competent authorities of all Member States with which it is connected either directly or pursuant to paragraph 2 via a third country, accompanied by a description of the implemented measures referred to in point (b) of this paragraph; undertaken to pay fair and prompt compensation to the Member State providing solidarity in accordance with paragraph 8.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-01 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.