(1) The competent authorities of the Contracting States shall
exchange such information as is forseeably relevant for carrying
out the provisions of this Agreement or to the administration or
enforcement of the domestic laws concerning taxes of every kind
and description imposed on behalf of a Contracting State, of a
Land or a political subdivision or local authority thereof, insofar
as the taxation thereunder is not contrary to the Agreement. The
exchange of information is not restricted by Article 1 and 2.
(2) Any information received under paragraph (1) by a Con-
tracting State shall be treated as secret in the same manner as
information obtained under the domestic laws of that State and
shall be disclosed only to persons or authorities (including courts
and administrative bodies) concerned with the assessment or
collection of, the enforcement or prosecution in respect of, or the
determination of appeals in relation to the taxes referred to in
paragraph (1), or the oversight of the above. Such persons or au-
thorities shall use the information only for such purposes. They
may disclose the information in public court proceedings or in
judicial decisions. Notwithstanding the foregoing, information re-
ceived by a Contracting State may be used for other purposes
when such information may be used for such other purposes un-
der the laws of both States and the competent authority of the
supplying State authorises such use.
(3) In no case shall the provisions of paragraphs (1) and (2)
be construed as to impose on a Contracting State the obligation:
a) to carry out administrative measures for the supply of infor-
mation at variance with the laws and administrative practice
of that or of the other Contracting State;
b) to supply information which is not obtainable under the laws
or in the normal course of the administration of that or of the
other Contracting State;
c) to supply information which would disclose any trade, busi-
ness, industrial, commercial or professional secret or trade
process, or information, the disclosure of which would be
contrary to public policy (ordre public).
(4) If information is requested by a Contracting State in ac -
cordance with this Article, the other Contracting State shall use
its information gathering measures to obtain the requested
information, even though that other State may not need such
information for its own tax purposes. The obligation contained in
the preceding sentence is subject to the limitations of
paragraph 3 but in no case shall such limitations be construed
to permit a Contracting State to decline to supply information
solely because it has no domestic interest in such information.
(5) In no case shall the provisions of paragraph 3 be con-
strued to permit a Contracting State to decline to supply infor-
mation solely because the information is held by a bank, other
financial institution, nominee or person acting in an agency or a
fiduciary capacity or because it relates to ownership interests in
a person.
de-cyprus-2011-base | BGBl. 2011 II S. 1068 | Signed: 2011-02-18 | Gazette publication: 2011-11-07
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Protocols and later instruments
Integral protocol retained separately, not merged into the final article. Later changes and 2026 developments are not exhaustively verified. KNOWN LATER AMENDMENT OMITTED: protocol signed 2021-02-19, entry 2021-12-08, general application 2022-01-01 per pinned audit; not incorporated. Source-triage warnings: Bounded agent triage, no qualified wording/alignment/legal review. No exhaustive verification of all later 2026 developments. Matching digest proves retained source identity, not legal force. Known related/later instruments NOT included in this source (agent triage, not exhaustive): amending-protocol; signature date: 2021-02-19; entry into force: 2021-12-08; general application from: 2022-01-01; limit: Exact tax-specific application remains for protocol review.
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BGBl. 2011 II S. 1068 | de-cyprus-2011-base | de-cyprus-2011-base | BGBl. 2011 II S. 1068 | Signed: 2011-02-18 | Gazette publication: 2011-11-07 | Article 25 | en | Pending human wording, completeness, source-authority, currentness, alignment and rendering review. No legal review performed. | /library/treaties/de-cyprus-2011-base/en/articles/article-25/
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de-cyprus-2011-base | BGBl. 2011 II S. 1068 | Signed: 2011-02-18 | Gazette publication: 2011-11-07
Source form
official-publication PDF retained unchanged; reader derives from an evidenced native font-map encoding-recovery derivative, not OCR
Source scope
original implementing law, bilingual base treaty and accompanying protocol; not a current consolidated text
Retrieved
2026-09-30
Text and language scope
The original signing clause identifies German, Greek and English as authentic. Only German and English are supplied; the authentic Greek version is NOT included. The clause gives English precedence in divergent interpretation of the German and Greek texts. Unreviewed coordinate-based machine transcription of this original source edition only. Printed line breaks, hyphens and uncertain token spacing are retained, not silently corrected. Treaty preamble, closing formula, protocol and shared signatures are separate retained assets, not part of the last article. Full supplements: /review/de-cyprus-2011-base/. PDF page links identify pages, not verified paragraph correspondence. Signed 2011-02-18; consent law 2011-11-01; Gazette publication 2011-11-07; treaty entry into force UNRESOLVED in pinned audit (retained official-article audit evidence); general application from 2012-01-01 (roster, not universal tax-specific start). Encoding-recovery method: only independently evidenced source font code00 /space Unicode mappings U+0007 to U+0020 changed in a separately hashed derivative. CFF blank glyphs, 278-unit advances, unchanged decoded page content streams and 21/21 identical page renders evidence this mapping. Word regrouping is logged; every nonspace character is conserved in sequence within its physical source line. No generated treaty wording and no OCR.
Review status
Pending human wording, completeness, source-authority, currentness, alignment and rendering review. No legal review performed.
Currentness
Original source edition; not a verified current-law consolidation. Original base edition only; current law NOT verified. Integral protocol retained separately, not merged into the final article. Later changes and 2026 developments are not exhaustively verified. KNOWN LATER AMENDMENT OMITTED: protocol signed 2021-02-19, entry 2021-12-08, general application 2022-01-01 per pinned audit; not incorporated. Bounded agent triage, no qualified wording/alignment/legal review. No exhaustive verification of all later 2026 developments. Matching digest proves retained source identity, not legal force.
Protocols and later instruments
Integral protocol retained separately, not merged into the final article. Later changes and 2026 developments are not exhaustively verified. KNOWN LATER AMENDMENT OMITTED: protocol signed 2021-02-19, entry 2021-12-08, general application 2022-01-01 per pinned audit; not incorporated. Source-triage warnings: Bounded agent triage, no qualified wording/alignment/legal review. No exhaustive verification of all later 2026 developments. Matching digest proves retained source identity, not legal force. Known related/later instruments NOT included in this source (agent triage, not exhaustive): amending-protocol; signature date: 2021-02-19; entry into force: 2021-12-08; general application from: 2022-01-01; limit: Exact tax-specific application remains for protocol review.
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