1. Under no circumstances may State administrations, départements and communes, as well as companies granted concessions by the State, départements and communes, or any establishments or bodies whatsoever subject to the control of the administrative authority, as well as social security bodies and funds and bodies managing the unemployment insurance scheme, invoke professional secrecy against customs officers with at least the rank of controller who, in order to assess taxes instituted by existing laws, request communication of service documents in their possession, regardless of the medium.
Category C customs officers may exercise the aforementioned right of communication when acting on the written order of a customs officer of at least the rank of inspector. This order must be presented to the authorities referred to in the above paragraph.
2. Individual economic or financial information gathered in the course of statistical surveys carried out within the framework of Act no. 51-711 of 7 June 1951 may under no circumstances be used for tax control or economic repression purposes. Authorities holding information of this nature are not bound by the obligation arising from 1 above.