The central competent authority shall establish a safety stockpile model of materials for communicable disease control to meet national demands for disease control and allocation of materials for communicable disease control. The model shall be reviewed periodically.
Local competent authorities shall establish safety stockpile models of materials for communicable disease control to meet needs for public health and disease control in their jurisdictions, and report to the central competent authority for approval.

To meet the needs for isolating patients during large-scale epidemics of communicable diseases, medical care institutions shall determine by themselves the safety stockpile size and types of stockpile for 30-day period, and report the basis of calculation and parameters to the local competent authorities for approval.

To meet needs for the control of epidemics, the central competent authority may requisition the materials for communicable disease control stockpiled by local competent authorities; in principle, the total amount requisitioned shall not exceed one half of the stockpiles of the local competent authorities; local competent authorities may not refuse.
The materials for communicable disease control so requisitioned in the preceding Paragraph shall be returned in new articles within six months.

The central competent authority, in response to the needs of the epidemic situations, may appropriate without remuneration materials for communicable disease control to governmental organizations, schools, institutions, enterprises or organizations under the following circumstances:
1. for executing communicable disease control work in coordination with the central competent authority;
2. for executing work designated by the commanding officer of the central epidemic command center.
During the non-epidemic period, the central competent authority may appropriate without remuneration materials for communicable disease control that have exceeded two-thirds of the labeled validity date or been stocked for more than three years to institutions (organizations) mentioned in Subparagraph 1 of the preceding Paragraph for use in communicable disease control. Their transportation costs may be reduced or waived.
The preceding Paragraph also applies to the materials for communicable disease control stocked by the local competent authorities.

Governmental organizations, schools, institutions, groups or enterprises may request local competent authorities in their districts for requisition of materials for communicable disease control; local competent authorities shall assess the needs of requisition for communicable disease control and the needs for safety stockpile of the institutions to consider the quantity of requisition to be accepted.
When local competent authorities are unable to supply the request of the preceding Paragraph, they shall refer the request documents to the central competent authority for handling.
For the materials for communicable disease control requisitioned, new articles or articles of similar quality shall be returned in six months; transportation costs required for the requisition of materials for communicable disease control, except under some special circumstances, shall be borne by the requesting institutions.

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Materials for communicable disease control that shall be returned in accordance with regulations of Article 7 and Article 9, when the materials cannot be returned in time under certain circumstances, application in writing for delayed return shall be made to the organization handling the requisition request for approval of the delayed return.
If application for delayed return is not made in accordance with regulations of the preceding Paragraph, or if materials are not returned in due time, the organizations handling the requisition shall ask for compensation for the costs needed for the re-procurement of the materials originally requisitioned; however, during the epidemic period and with the approval of the competent authorities, this regulation does not apply.