In order to comply with a request for assistance, the requested authority or, when the latter cannot act on its own, the administrative department to which the request has been addressed by this authority, shall proceed, within its competence and available resources, as though it were acting on its own account or at the request of other authorities of that same Party, by supplying information already possessed, by carrying out appropriate enquiries or by arranging for them to be carried out.
Da bi ugodil zaprosilu za pomoč, ravna zaprošeni organ, ali kadar ta ne more sam ukrepati, upravna služba, na katero je ta organ naslovil zaprosilo, v okviru svoje pristojnosti in razpoložljivih virov tako, kot da bi ukrepal za svoj račun ali po zaprosilu drugih organov iste pogodbenice s tem, da sporoči informacije, ki jih že ima, opravlja ustrezne poizvedbe ali poskrbi, da se te opravijo.