A United Kingdom competent authority may, where difficulties are encountered in providing prompt and appropriate medical treatment, require any holder of appropriate and adequate information on substances used in cosmetic products to make such information available to it, where the difficulties referred to may be overcome or eased by the provision of the said information.

Where the information referred to in paragraph (1) is made available, the United Kingdom competent authority shall ensure that it is used solely for the purposes of the treatment referred to in paragraph (1).