Artikel 14

1. Any information received under this Agreement shall be used solely for the purposes of this Agreement and by the customs administrations, except in cases in which the customs administration which furnished such information expressly approves its use for other purposes or by other authorities and any such further use is allowed by the law of the receiving State. Such use shall then be subject to any restrictions laid down by the customs administration which furnished the information. Any such information may, if the law of the State of the furnishing customs administration so prescribes, only be used in criminal prosecutions after the public prosecution or judicial authorities of the State of the furnishing customs administration have agreed to such use.
2. Any information received under this Agreement shall at least be subject to the same protection and confidentiality as the same kind of information is subject to under the national law where it is received irrespective of the nationality, citizenship or residence of the persons concerned.
3. The disclosure of information to the European Commission or any of the customs administrations of the European Union's Member States under the obligations of the Kingdom of the Netherlands referred to in Article 2 of this Agreement shall be notified to the Australian Customs Service in advance.