For as long as a Member State can cover the gas consumption for its solidarity protected customers from its own production, it shall be exempt from the obligation to conclude technical, legal and financial arrangements with Member States with which it is directly connected or, in accordance with paragraph 2, via a third country, for the purpose of receiving solidarity.
Fad a fhéadfaidh Ballstát tomhaltas gáis a chuid custaiméirí atá faoi chosaint leis an dlúthpháirtíocht a chumhdach óna tháirgeacht féin, díolmhófar é, dá réir sin, ón oibleagáid socruithe teicniúla, dlíthiúla agus airgeadais a thabhairt i gcrích le Ballstáit lena bhfuil nasc díreach aige nó, i gcomhréir le mír 2, trí thríú tír, ar mhaithe leis an dlúthpháirtíocht a fháil.