If foot-and-mouth disease assumes alarming proportions on the territory of a Member State and, despite the measures taken, particularly in application of Article 13, the epizootic becomes extensive and develops widely outside the limits of the vaccinated zone, a Member State which does not practise prophylactic vaccination on all or part of its territory may carry out such vaccination on all or part of its territory and apply the measures laid down in Article 5 (2) (b).
Če dobi slinavka in parkljevka na ozemlju države članice alarmantne razsežnosti in postane epizootija kljub izvedenim ukrepom, zlasti pri izvajanju člena 13, obsežna in se razširi daleč zunaj meja območja cepljenja, lahko država članica, ki ne izvaja preventivnega cepljena na svojem celotnem ozemlju ali njegovem delu, izvede takšno cepljenje na vsem svojem ozemlju ali njegovem delu in izvede ukrepe, določene v členu 5(2)(b).