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Article 59 octies of the French Customs Code

Customs officers and officers of the Directorate-General for Risk Prevention and its decentralised departments are authorised, for the purposes of their duties to monitor waste treatment conditions and cross-border shipments, to monitor chemical substances and products and to combat tax fraud, to provide each other, on request or spontaneously, with all information and documents held or collected in the course of their respective duties.

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Article 59 octies

Les agents des douanes et les agents de la direction générale de la prévention des risques et de ses services déconcentrés sont autorisés, pour les besoins de leurs missions de contrôle des conditions de traitement des déchets et de leurs transferts transfrontaliers, de contrôle des substances et produits chimiques et de lutte contre la fraude fiscale, à se communiquer, sur demande ou spontanément, tous les renseignements et documents détenus ou recueillis dans l’exercice de leurs missions respectives.

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