I. The customs administration is authorised to communicate the information it holds on foreign trade and financial relations with other ministerial departments and the Banque de France which, through their activity, participate in the public service missions to which the customs administration contributes. The information communicated must be necessary for the performance of these tasks or for better use of public expenditure devoted to the development of foreign trade.
II. This information may only be communicated to civil servants of the grade of civil administrator or to agents fulfilling functions of the same importance.
III. Persons having knowledge of and using the information thus communicated are, under the conditions and subject to the penalties provided for in Article 226-13 of the French Penal Code, bound by professional secrecy in all matters relating to the said information.