Article 69 — Certification

1. Where the Council activates the measure under this Article in accordance with Article 64(4), Member States shall ensure that administrative procedures related to the certification of crisis-relevant defence products and, where necessary, technical adaptations of such products are processed in the most rapid way possible, in accordance with their applicable national laws and regulations. 2. Where such a status exists in national law, certification of crisis-relevant defence products shall be allocated the status of the highest possible significance. 3. Where this measure is activated, crisis-relevant defence products certified in a Member State shall be deemed certified in another Member State without being subject to additional control. 4. The implementing act referred to in Article 64(4) may lay down more precise provisions on the scope of this measure. 5. This Article is without prejudice to the right of each Member State to protect the essential interests of its security in accordance with Article 346(1), point (b), TFEU.