1.RASFF network contact points shall submit alert notifications to the Commission contact point without undue delay and in any event within 48 hours of the risk being reported to them.
2.Alert notifications shall include all available information required by Article 16(1) and any information on the risk and the product from which it derives. However, the fact that not all relevant information has been collected shall not unduly delay transmission of alert notifications.
3.The Commission contact point shall verify alert notifications and transmit them to the alert and cooperation network contact points within 24 hours of receiving them.
4.Outside Commission office hours, RASFF network contact points shall announce the transmission of an alert notification or follow-up to an alert notification by telephone call to the emergency phone number of the Commission contact point and specify which RASFF network member’s countries are concerned. The Commission contact point shall inform the RASFF network contact points concerned by a telephone call to their emergency phone numbers.