TITLE IV ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANCE AND COOPERATION

Article 108Coordinated assistance and follow-up by the Commission

1.Where the competent authorities in the Member States concerned are unable to agree on appropriate action to address the non-compliance with the rules referred to in Article 1(2), the Commission shall coordinate without delay the measures and actions undertaken by competent authorities in accordance with this Title where information available to the Commission either:

(a)reports activities that are, or appear to be, non-compliant with the rules referred to in Article 1(2), and such activities have, or might have, ramifications in more than one Member State; or

(b)indicates that the same, or similar, activities that are, or appear to be, non-compliant with the rules referred to in Article 1(2) might be taking place in more than one Member State.

2.In the cases referred to in paragraph 1, the Commission may:

(a)in collaboration with the Member State concerned, send an inspection team to perform an on-the-spot official control;

(b)request, by means of implementing acts, that the competent authorities in the Member State of dispatch and, where appropriate, in other Member States concerned, appropriately intensify official controls and report to it on the measures taken by them;

(c)take any other appropriate measure in accordance with the rules referred to in Article 1(2).

3.The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 144 to supplement this Regulation by establishing rules for the rapid exchange of information in the cases referred to in paragraph 1.