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The safeguard clause procedure, based on Article 114(10) TFEU and included in a large part of sectoral Union harmonisation legislation, requires Member States to take provisional measures in relation to products presenting a risk to health and safety or other aspects of public interests protection and obliges them to notify those measures to the Commission and other Member States. The safeguard clause procedure is designed to provide a means to notify all national market surveillance authorities and the Commission about measures taken on products presenting a risk to health and safety or other aspects of public interests protection, including the grounds for the decision, and, accordingly, to have the necessary restrictions extended to all Member States, so as to ensure an equivalent level of protection throughout the EU. Furthermore, it allows other Member States and the Commission to take a position on the national measures restricting the free movement of products with a view to ensuring the functioning of the internal market.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-25 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.