Artikel 11

1. The Requested Party, in compliance with its national law, shall take statements from witnesses, victims, suspects and defendants, experts or other persons, and shall also obtain records, documents and any other evidence indicated in the request for legal assistance, and shall transmit them to the Requesting Party.
2. A person from whom evidence is to be taken in the Requested Party pursuant to a request under this Article may decline to give evidence or statements where the national law of the Requested Party or that of the Requesting Party so provides.
3. If any person in the Requested Party claims that there is a right or obligation to decline to give evidence under the national law of the Requesting Party, the Requesting Party shall, upon request, provide a statement to the Requested Party as to the existence of that right. In the absence of evidence to the contrary, the statement shall be sufficient evidence of the matters stated in it.
4. For the purposes of this Article, the taking of evidence includes the production of documents or other material.
5. In accordance with the national law of the Requested Party, officials of the Requesting Party and other persons concerned with the proceedings in the Requesting Party may be permitted to be present when evidence is taken in the territory of the Requested Party and to participate in the taking of such evidence in a manner that may be specified by the Requested Party. The persons present at the execution of a request may be permitted to propose such questions to the authorities of the Requested Party as permitted under the national law of the Requesting Party.