The German gas emergency plan, the Notfallplan Gas, has three stages: the Frühwarnstufe, early warning, the Alarmstufe, alert, and the Notfallstufe, emergency. The early warning stage was declared on 30 March 2022, and a crisis team was set up. On 23 June 2022, after Russia sharply cut deliveries through Nord Stream 1, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs declared the alert stage. In the emergency stage, the Federal Network Agency would decide who receives how much gas. Private households, hospitals and other protected customers would be supplied until the very end.