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1. Member States shall, on a voluntary basis, work towards developing modules, in particular to meet priority intervention or support needs under the Union Mechanism. Member States shall identify, in advance, modules, other response capacities and experts within their competent services, in particular within their civil protection or other emergency services, which could be made available for intervention upon request through the Union Mechanism. They shall take into account that the composition of modules or other response capacities may depend on the type of disaster and on the disaster-related particular needs.

2. Modules shall be made up of the resources of one or more Member States and shall:

(a) be able to perform pre-defined tasks in the areas of response in accordance with established international guidelines and therefore be able to:

(i) be dispatched at very short notice following a request for assistance through the ERCC; and (ii) work self-sufficiently and autonomously for a given period of time;

(b) be interoperable with other modules;

(c) undertake training and exercises in order to meet the interoperability requirement;

(d) be placed under the authority of a person who is responsible for the operation of modules; and (e) be able to cooperate with other Union bodies and/or international institutions, in particular the United Nations, as appropriate.

3. The Member States shall, on a voluntary basis, identify, in advance, experts that could be dispatched as members of expert teams, as specified in point (d) of Article 8.

4. The Member States shall consider providing, as required, other response capacities, which could be available from the competent services, or which may be provided by non-governmental organisations and other relevant entities.

Other response capacities may comprise resources from one or more Member States and, where appropriate, shall:

(a) be able to perform tasks in the areas of response in accordance with established international guidelines and therefore be able to:

(i) be dispatched at very short notice following a request for assistance through the ERCC; and (ii) work self-sufficiently and autonomously where necessary for a given period of time;

(b) be able to cooperate with other Union bodies and/or international institutions, in particular the United Nations, as appropriate.

5. Member States may, subject to appropriate security safeguards, provide information about relevant military capacities that could be used as a last resort as part of the assistance through the Union Mechanism, such as transport and logistical or medical support.

6. Member States shall provide to the Commission relevant information on the experts, modules and other response capacities that they make available for assistance through the Union Mechanism as referred to in paragraphs 1 to 5 and update this information when necessary.

7. Member States shall designate contact points, as referred to in point (b) of Article 8, and inform the Commission accordingly.

8. Member States shall take the appropriate preparedness actions to facilitate host nation support.

9. Member States, supported by the Commission in accordance with Article 23, shall take the appropriate measures to ensure the timely transport of assistance they offer.

10. When emergency services are provided by Galileo, Copernicus, GovSatCom, or other components of the Space Programme established by Regulation (EU) 2021/696 of the European Parliament and of the Council (), each Member State may decide to use them. Where a Member State decides to use the emergency services provided by Galileo referred to in the first subparagraph, it shall identify and notify to the Commission the national authorities authorised to use those emergency services.