Article 48Emergency and crisis

1.Public buyers may make use of the procedure described in Article 46, where, for reasons of extreme urgency not attributable to the public buyer, the time limits for the procedures in this Regulation cannot be complied with.

2.Without prejudice to any joint procurement activities organised by the Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies where an emergency mode has been activated pursuant Regulation (EU) 2024/2747, the emergency framework has been activated pursuant Council Regulation (EU) 2022/2372, serious cross-border threats to health pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2022/2371 exist, or the Commission has declared a crisis or a state of emergency, the condition set out in paragraph 1 shall be deemed to be fulfilled for the type of solutions concerned and for as long as the state of emergency or the serious cross-border threat exist.