1. Where a benefitting Member State requests another Member State to take responsibility for examining a number of applications for international protection pursuant to Article 63(1) and (2), it shall transmit its request to the contributing Member State and include the number of applications for international protection to be taken responsibility for instead of relocations.
2. The contributing Member State shall reply to the request within 30 days of receipt of that request.
The contributing Member State may decide to accept to take responsibility for examining a lower number of applications for international protection than requested by the benefitting Member State.
3. The Member State which has accepted a request pursuant to paragraph 2 of this Article shall identify the individual applications for international protection for which it takes responsibility and shall indicate its responsibility pursuant to Article 16(3) of .