Recital (8)

Those Union crisis or emergency mechanisms provide for the declaration of a crisis or emergency mode and aim at providing the means to address Union crises or emergencies. By allowing the Commission to grant a Union compulsory licence when a crisis or emergency mode has been declared under a Union legal act, the necessary synergy between the relevant Union crisis or emergency mechanisms and a Union-wide compulsory licensing system can be achieved. In such a case, the determination of the existence of a crisis or emergency will depend solely on the underlying Union legal act and the relevant definition of crisis or emergency included therein. For the sake of legal certainty, the Union crisis or emergency mechanisms that provide for measures that qualify as emergency or extreme urgency measures at Union level and that can trigger a Union compulsory licence should be listed in the Annex to this Regulation.