In order to allow for the proper management of a situation of crisis, including instrumentalisation, or force majeure, and to ensure predictability and the appropriate adaptation of the relevant rules on the asylum procedure to such situations, including the asylum border procedure, power should be conferred upon the Commission to assess the situation, upon a reasoned request by the Member State concerned, and to determine, by way of an implementing decision, whether the requesting Member State is facing a situation of crisis, including instrumentalisation, or force majeure.