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the following paragraph is inserted: ‘3a. The Commission may, in consultation with the Member States and on the basis of reciprocity, exchange with the competent authorities of a partner country as listed in Annex VIII to Regulation (EU) No 833/2014 information concerning third-country trade, transactions and operators for the purpose of preventing circumvention of the prohibitions set out in this Regulation, to the extent that it is relevant and necessary for the effective implementation of this Regulation. Where that information contains personal data, the exchange shall be done under the conditions set out in Chapter V of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council (*1). If, on an exceptional basis, the information referred to in the first subparagraph relates to an operator established in a Member State, the Commission shall obtain the agreement of the competent authorities of the Member States concerned before any exchange of that information. (*1) Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 and Decision No 1247/2002/EC (OJ L 295, 21.11.2018, p. 39, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2018/1725/oj).’;"

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-15 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.