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Regulation (EU) 2016/1012 Article 50

Coordinated assistance and follow-up by the Commission

Article 50

1.   The Commission shall, without delay, coordinate the measures and actions undertaken by the competent authorities in accordance with this Chapter where: (a) information available to the Commission indicates the existence of activities that are, or appear to be, non-compliant with the rules provided for in this Regulation and that concern more than one Member State; (b) the competent authorities in the Member States concerned are unable to agree on appropriate actions to address the non-compliance with the rules provided for in this Regulation. 2.   In the cases referred to in paragraph 1, the Commission may: (a) request that the competent authorities of the Member States concerned by the activities that are, or appear to be, non-compliant with the rules provided for in this Regulation, provide it with a report on the measures that they have taken; (b) in collaboration with the Member States concerned by the activities that are, or appear to be, non-compliant with the rules provided for in this Regulation, send an inspection team to perform an on-the-spot Commission control; (c) request that the competent authorities of the Member State of dispatch and, where appropriate, in other Member States concerned, appropriately intensify their official controls and provide it with a report on the measures that they have taken; (d) submit information concerning such cases to the Committee referred to in Article 62(1), together with a proposal for measures to remedy the cases of non-compliance referred to in point (a) of paragraph 1 of this Article; (e) take any other appropriate measures.

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