CONTROLLED DELIVERY. 1. The Contracting Parties shall take the necessary measures, within the framework of national legislation and their competence and abilities, to permit the appropriate use of controlled delivery for the purpose of criminal investigations.
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CONTROLLED DELIVERY. 1. The Contracting Parties shall take the necessary measures, within their possibilities, to permit the appropriate use of controlled delivery for the purpose of criminal investigations of extraditable offences with the aim of identifying and detecting persons involved in illicit trafficking in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances or other goods as agreed upon by the Customs Authorities.
CONTROLLED DELIVERY. The Customs Authorities, in consultation with the relevant law enforcement agencies, may cooperate in and exchange information on a controlled delivery executed in accordance with the laws and regulations of their respective countries.
CONTROLLED DELIVERY. 1. The Customs Administrations shall assume the necessary measures, within their available resources, for appropriate use of controlled delivery for the purpose of criminal investigations.
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CONTROLLED DELIVERY. The Customs Authorities shall take the necessary measures, within their capacity and in accordance with the domestic law of the relevant Signatory Parties, including, whenever necessary, the approval of and coordination with the relevant competent authorities, to allow for the appropriate use of controlled delivery at the international level for the purpose of identifying persons involved in the illicit trafficking in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances or in other goods, as the case may be, and taking legal action against them. Decisions to use controlled delivery shall be made on a case-by-case basis and, where necessary, in accordance with any arrangements or agreements which may have been reached concerning a particular case. The Customs Authorities may, if necessary, and provided it is in conformity with the domestic law of the relevant Signatory Parties, take into account financial arrangements and understandings reached. Illicit consignments whose controlled delivery is agreed to may, by mutual consent of the competent authorities, be intercepted and allowed to continue with the narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, or other goods, as the case may be, intact or removed or replaced in whole or in part.
CONTROLLED DELIVERY. The Customs administrations may, by mutual arrangement, permit, under their control, the movement of unlawful or suspect goods out of, through, or into their respective customs territories with a view to investigating and combating customs offences. If granting such permission is not within the competence of the customs administration, that administration shall endeavour to initiate co-operation with the national authorities that have such competence or it shall transfer the case to those authorities.
CONTROLLED DELIVERY. 1. Subject to the domestic law of each Member State, the Customs Administrations of the Member States shall co- operate, as necessary, in the context of international control- led deliveries of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances or substances frequently used in the illicit manufacture of nar- cotic drugs and psychotropic substances, in order to detect offences relating to such goods and identify Persons commit- ting such offences.
CONTROLLED DELIVERY. This technique allows suspect or illegal goods to proceed across borders to their destination under surveillance, without being detained or seized, in order to identify and apprehend suspects who are responsible for smuggling them rather than limiting action to seizing illegal goods at the border and only apprehending the couriers of those goods. Controlled deliveries can assist the identification and dismantling of smuggling networks. It is anticipated that the competent authority of the requested Contracting Party would take over control of the delivery as it crosses its border, or at an agreed hand-over point. As far as possible, supervision of the goods must be continuously maintained to give the competent authority the opportunity to apprehend the suspects and detain or seize the goods at any time during the operation. Controlled deliveries shall be carried out in accordance with the procedures of and under the responsibility of the requested Contracting Party. Suspect consignments may be intercepted and their contents left intact, removed or replaced in part or in whole. Where the controlled delivery necessitates passage through territories other than those of the Contracting Parties, the full approval of the competent authorities in those territories must be secured in accordance with any applicable legal provision. The Article also provides that if, under national law, the Customs authority is not authorized to carry out a controlled delivery, it must approach the agency that has jurisdiction to conduct controlled deliveries and co-operate with it in carrying out the operation or transfer the case to that agency.
