An emergency degassing arrangement for a housing in the motor vehicle sector, in particular a battery housing. The housing encloses at least one housing interior and has at least one housing opening which is closed by a covering device. The covering device has at least one membrane, a spike member and a sensor device in such a manner that, when a defined internal pressure in the respective housing interior is exceeded, the sensor device detects the exceeding and the membrane can be destroyed. The spike member is mounted resiliently in the covering device by a spring member.