(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 the Contracting
States, 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
Articles 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 assess-
ment or collection of, the enforcement or prosecution in respect
of, the determination of appeals in relation to the taxes referred
to in paragraph 1, or the oversight of the above. 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.
(3) In no case shall the provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 be
construed so as to impose on a Contracting State the obliga-
tion:
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
accordance 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 para-
graph 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.
(6) The procedure for the exchange of information is laid
down by the domestic laws of the Contracting States, without
restricting the obligations of the Contracting States according
to the preceeding paragraphs 1 to 5.
de-syria-2010-base | BGBl. 2010 II S. 1359 | signed 2010-02-17 | published 2010-11-23 | Signed: 2010-02-17 | Gazette publication: 2010-11-23
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BGBl. 2010 II S. 1359 | de-syria-2010-base | de-syria-2010-base | BGBl. 2010 II S. 1359 | signed 2010-02-17 | published 2010-11-23 | Signed: 2010-02-17 | Gazette publication: 2010-11-23 | Article 25 | en | Pending human wording, completeness, source-authority, currentness, alignment and rendering review. No legal review performed. | /library/treaties/de-syria-2010-base/en/articles/article-25/
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de-syria-2010-base | BGBl. 2010 II S. 1359 | signed 2010-02-17 | published 2010-11-23 | Signed: 2010-02-17 | Gazette publication: 2010-11-23
Source form
official-publication PDF with native text layer; reader is a machine transcription
Source scope
original implementing law, bilingual base treaty and accompanying protocol; not a current consolidated text
Retrieved
2026-09-30
Text and language scope
This source supplies German and English versions. The signing clause also identifies Arabic as authentic; that third version is NOT present in this reader. Missing here does not mean globally unavailable. 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-syria-2010-base/. PDF page links identify pages, not verified paragraph correspondence.
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 2010-02-17; consent law 2010-11-18; gazette publication 2010-11-23. Edition ID year is not a signature date. Treaty entry into force: not resolved as a single source-bound field by the retained audit. Roster general application: 2011-01-01 (not a universal tax-specific rule). 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. 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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