1.The Commission shall, upon receipt of a request for support from the Mechanism for pooling or identifying transport resources in order to transport civil protection assistance to an affected State, immediately notify the contact points, designated by the participating States under point (e) of Article 3 of Decision 2001/792/EC, Euratom of this request.
2.In the notification, the Commission shall invite participating States to provide it with details of any transport resources which they can make available to the participating State making the request.
3.In the notification referred to in Paragraph 2, the Commission shall also set a period on expiry of which requests for Community financing may become eligible. That period shall not exceed 24 hours from the notification. The Commission may shorten that period to a minimum of six hours where this is necessary in order to respond effectively to urgent and vital needs.