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1. Information received pursuant to this Agreement shall only be used for the purposes specified in paragraph 1 of Article 2 of this Agreement. It shall not be communicated to other authorities unless the Customs Administration providing the information has expressly approved in writing its use by that other authorities.
2. Notwithstanding the second sentence of paragraph 1, unless otherwise notified by the Customs Administration providing the information, the Customs Administration receiving the information may provide the information received pursuant to this Agreement to the relevant law enforcement agencies of its country, which may use such information under the conditions stipulated in the first sentence of paragraph 1, paragraphs 3, 4 and 5, and Article 10 of this Agreement.
3. Each Contracting Party shall maintain the confidentiality of any information received pursuant to this Agreement, and shall grant at least the same level of protection under the laws and regulations of the country of the Customs Administration providing the information unless the Customs Administration providing the information consents to the disclosure of such information.
4. Personal data may be exchanged only where the Contracting Party which may receive it undertakes to protect such data in at least an equivalent way to the one applicable to that particular case in the Contracting Party that may supply it. The Contracting Party that may supply the information shall not stipulate any requirements that are more onerous than those applicable to it in its own jurisdiction.
5. This Article shall not preclude the use or disclosure of information to the extent that there is an obligation to do so under the laws and regulations of the country of the Customs Administration receiving the information. Such Customs Administration shall, wherever possible, give advance notice of any such disclosure to the Customs Administration providing the information.