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1. Where a Member State considers itself to be in a situation of crisis or force majeure, it may, given those exceptional circumstances, submit a reasoned request to the Commission, in order to benefit from solidarity measures allowing for the proper management of that situation and to allow for possible derogations from the relevant rules on the asylum procedure, while ensuring that the applicants’ fundamental rights are respected.

2. A reasoned request as referred to in paragraph 1 shall include:

(a) a description of:

(i) how, as a result of a situation of crisis as referred to in Article 1(4), point (a), the Member State’s asylum and reception system, including child-protection services, has become non-functional, as well as the measures taken so far to address the situation and a justification proving that that system, although well-prepared and notwithstanding the measures already taken, is unable to address the situation; or (ii) how the Member State is faced with a situation of instrumentalisation as referred to in Article 1(4), point (b), that is putting its essential functions at risk, including the maintenance of law and order or the safeguard of its national security; or (iii) how the Member State is faced with abnormal and unforeseeable circumstances outside its control, the consequences of which could not be avoided notwithstanding the exercise of all due care, and how that situation of force majeure prevents it from fulfilling its obligations laid down in Article 27, Article 45(1) and Article 51(2) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1348 and in Articles 39, 40, 41 and 46 of the Regulation (EU) 2024/1351;

(b) where relevant, the type and level of solidarity measures provided for in Article 8(1) that it considers necessary;

(c) where relevant, the derogations provided for in Articles 10 to 13 that it considers necessary; and (d) if the Member State requests to apply the derogation provided for in Article 11(6), whether it intends to provide for the exclusion of specific categories of applicants as referred to in paragraph 7, point (a), or paragraph 7, point (b) of that Article or the cessation of the border procedure for specific categories of applicants following an individual assessment as provided for in paragraph 9 of that Article.