Article 17

Council Regulation (EC) No 515/97 of 13 March 1997 on mutual assistance between the administrative authorities of the Member States and cooperation between the latter and the Commission to ensure the correct application of the law on customs and agricultural matters · European Union

1. The competent authorities of each Member State shall communicate to the Commission as soon as it is available to them: any information they consider relevant concerning: goods which have been or are suspected of having been the object of breaches of customs or agricultural legislation, methods or practices used or suspected of having been used to breach customs or agricultural legislation, requests for assistance, action taken and information exchanged in application of Articles 4 to 16 which are capable of revealing fraudulent tendencies in the field of customs and agriculture; any information on shortcomings or gaps in customs and agricultural legislation that become apparent or may be deduced from the application of that legislation. 2. The Commission shall communicate to the competent authorities in each Member State, as soon as it becomes available, any information that would help them to enforce customs or agricultural legislation.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-06 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.