1. Contributions in the form of alternative solidarity measures shall be based on a specific request of the benefitting Member State. Such contributions shall be counted as financial solidarity, and their concrete value shall be established, jointly, in a realistic manner, by the contributing and the benefitting Member States concerned and communicated to the EU Solidarity Coordinator before those contributions are implemented.

2. Member States shall provide alternative solidarity measures only in addition to, and without duplicating, those provided by operations of Union bodies, offices and agencies or by Union funding in the field of asylum and migration management in the benefitting Member States. Member States shall only provide alternative solidarity measures in addition to what they are required to contribute through Union bodies, offices and agencies.

3. The benefitting and the contributing Member States shall finalise the implementation of agreed alternative solidarity measures even if the relevant implementing acts have expired.