(1) The competent authorities of the Contracting States shall
exchange such information as is necessary for carrying out the
provisions of this Convention or of the domestic laws of the Con-
tracting States concerning taxes covered by the Convention
insofar as the taxation thereunder is not contrary to the Conven-
tion. The exchange of information is not restricted by Article 1.
Any information received by a Contracting 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 per-
sons 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 and
other legal remedies in relation to, the taxes covered by the Con-
vention. Such persons or authorities shall use the information
only for such purposes. They may disclose the information in
public court proceedings or in judicial decisions.
(2) In no case shall the provisions of paragraph 1 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).
de-romania-2003-base | BGBl. 2003 II S. 1594 | signed 2001-07-04 | published 2003-11-14 | Signed: 2001-07-04 | Gazette publication: 2003-11-14
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Original official-publication PDF retained unchanged. Reader uses explicit native-font ToUnicode derivative; exact original word text and geometry unchanged, no OCR.
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original implementing law, multilingual base treaty and accompanying protocol; not a current consolidated text
Retrieved
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Text and language scope
German and English are separate complete physical source regions. The closing also names Romanian, NOT printed as a separate language version in this retained original; no Romanian asset or translation. English precedence clause is retained. 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-romania-2003-base/. PDF page links identify pages, not verified paragraph correspondence. Native Type1 diagnostic recovery: all used font codes independently mapped and glyphs loaded; only overlong Copyright metadata lines remain as retained Poppler warnings. No text repair or warning suppression. Full machine evidence and full physical pages: /geometry/de-romania-2003-base/.
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. Unknown as current law. Signed 2001-07-04; consent law 2003-11-12; gazette publication 2003-11-14. Edition ID year is not a signature date. Treaty entry into force: 2003-12-17. Roster general application: 2004-01-01 (not a universal tax-specific rule). Cached official article entry statements (may refer to multiple instruments): 17. Dezember 2003. Evidence is the retained 2026-10-01 agent audit of source PDF, 2026-01-01 roster and cached official HTML, not a fresh current-law determination. 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
Printed signature protocol retained separately and not merged into articles. Roster future-instrument/negotiation entry (NOT proof of operative amendment): Rumänien R-P V. P = Paraphierung (initialled), NOT signature; U = signed, ratification pending; V = negotiation. R-P protocol/R-A replacement. MLI application and complete later amendments, replacements or suspensions are NOT verified. No developments after the retained roster snapshot are certified. This is NOT a current consolidated instrument. 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.
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BGBl. 2003 II S. 1594 | de-romania-2003-base | de-romania-2003-base | BGBl. 2003 II S. 1594 | signed 2001-07-04 | published 2003-11-14 | Signed: 2001-07-04 | Gazette publication: 2003-11-14 | Article 26 | en | Pending human wording, completeness, source-authority, currentness, alignment and rendering review. No legal review performed. | /library/treaties/de-romania-2003-base/en/articles/article-26/
Source, edition and limits
Source edition
de-romania-2003-base | BGBl. 2003 II S. 1594 | signed 2001-07-04 | published 2003-11-14 | Signed: 2001-07-04 | Gazette publication: 2003-11-14
Source form
Original official-publication PDF retained unchanged. Reader uses explicit native-font ToUnicode derivative; exact original word text and geometry unchanged, no OCR.
Source scope
original implementing law, multilingual base treaty and accompanying protocol; not a current consolidated text
Retrieved
2026-09-30
Text and language scope
German and English are separate complete physical source regions. The closing also names Romanian, NOT printed as a separate language version in this retained original; no Romanian asset or translation. English precedence clause is retained. 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-romania-2003-base/. PDF page links identify pages, not verified paragraph correspondence. Native Type1 diagnostic recovery: all used font codes independently mapped and glyphs loaded; only overlong Copyright metadata lines remain as retained Poppler warnings. No text repair or warning suppression. Full machine evidence and full physical pages: /geometry/de-romania-2003-base/.
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. Unknown as current law. Signed 2001-07-04; consent law 2003-11-12; gazette publication 2003-11-14. Edition ID year is not a signature date. Treaty entry into force: 2003-12-17. Roster general application: 2004-01-01 (not a universal tax-specific rule). Cached official article entry statements (may refer to multiple instruments): 17. Dezember 2003. Evidence is the retained 2026-10-01 agent audit of source PDF, 2026-01-01 roster and cached official HTML, not a fresh current-law determination. 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
Printed signature protocol retained separately and not merged into articles. Roster future-instrument/negotiation entry (NOT proof of operative amendment): Rumänien R-P V. P = Paraphierung (initialled), NOT signature; U = signed, ratification pending; V = negotiation. R-P protocol/R-A replacement. MLI application and complete later amendments, replacements or suspensions are NOT verified. No developments after the retained roster snapshot are certified. This is NOT a current consolidated instrument. 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.
Text language and status
en · authentic-language-transcription · machine-transcription