The Commission should continuously review the situation in that third country taking into account inter alia information provided by the Member States and the Asylum Agency regarding subsequent changes in the situation of that third country. Moreover, in this case, the Commission should propose an amendment in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure to remove that third country’s designation as a safe country at Union level within 3 months of the adoption of delegated act suspending that third country. For the purposes of the substantiated assessment, the Commission should take into consideration a range of sources of information at its disposal, in particular its annual progress reports for third countries designated as candidate countries by the European Council, regular reports from the European External Action Service and the information from Member States, the Asylum Agency, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Council of Europe and other relevant international organisations.

18. OJ L 123, 12.5.2016, p. 1. ↩︎