SPONTANEOUS ASSISTANCE. The Customs Authorities of the Contracting Parties shall within their competences provide each other with assistance, which they consider to be necessary for the correct application of customs legislation, particularly when they obtain information pertaining to: - acts which have offended, offend or could offend customs legislation and which may be of interest to the other Contracting Party; - new means or methods employed in committing customs offences; - goods known or suspected to be the subject of customs offences in the territory of the State of the other Contracting Party; - particular persons known to be or suspected of committing customs offences in the territory of the State of the other Contracting Party; - means of transport and containers, about which information or suspicion exists that they were, are, or could be used in committing customs offences in the territory of the State of the other Contracting Party.
