Current legislation also allows products to be exceptionally purchased on the open market for the purposes of the scheme where there is a temporary shortfall in the availability of that product in intervention stocks, or where transfer would be required in small quantities from the intervention stocks of a Member State other than the one in which the product is to be distributed.
Kehtivate õigusaktide kohaselt võib erandkorras osta tooteid avatud turult, kui sekkumisvarudes konkreetne toode ajutiselt puudub või kui mõne muu kui selle liikmesriigi, kus toodet jaotatakse, sekkumisvarudest oleks tarvis üle kanda väikeses koguses tooteid.