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Amending Protocol to the Agreement between the European Community and the Principality of Monaco providing for measures equivalent to those laid down in Council Directive 2003/48/EC
Amending Protocol to the Agreement between the European Community and the Principality of Monaco providing for measures equivalent to those laid down in Council Directive 2003/48/EC
Amending Protocol to the Agreement between the European Community and the Principality of Monaco providing for measures equivalent to those laid down in Council Directive 2003/48/EC
IO L 225, 19.8.2016, p. 3–40
(BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)
In force
ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/prot/2016/1392/oj
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19.8.2016 |
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Official Journal of the European Union |
L 225/3 |
AMENDING PROTOCOL
to the Agreement between the European Community and the Principality of Monaco providing for measures equivalent to those laid down in Council Directive 2003/48/EC
THE EUROPEAN UNION
and
THE PRINCIPALITY OF MONACO,
hereinafter referred to as ‘Contracting Party’ or, jointly, as ‘Contracting Parties’,
WITH A VIEW to implementing the Standard for Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information developed by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) within a framework of cooperation which takes account of the legitimate interests of both Contracting Parties,
WHEREAS the Contracting Parties have a long-standing and close cooperation in tax matters, in particular on the application of measures equivalent to those laid down in Council Directive 2003/48/EC of 3 June 2003 on taxation of savings income in the form of interest payments (1), and desire to improve international tax compliance by further building on that relationship,
WHEREAS the Contracting Parties desire to come to an agreement to improve international tax compliance based on reciprocal automatic exchange of information subject to the confidentiality and other protections referred to in this amending Protocol, including provisions limiting the use of the information exchanged,
WHEREAS the Contracting Parties agree that the Agreement resulting from this Amending Protocol must comply with the OECD Standard for Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information, hereinafter referred to as the ‘Global Standard’,
WHEREAS Article 12 of the Agreement between the European Community and the Principality of Monaco providing for measures equivalent to those laid down in Council Directive 2003/48/EC (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Agreement’), which in its current form (2) prior to its amendment by this Amending Protocol limits the transmission of information to requests concerning acts constituting tax fraud, should be aligned on the OECD standard on transparency and exchange of information in tax matters in order to satisfy the objectives of this Standard as laid down in detail in Article 5(1) of the Agreement resulting from this Amending Protocol and in compliance with the guarantees of confidentiality and protection of personal data provided for in Article 6 of the Agreement resulting from this Amending Protocol and Annex III thereto,
WHEREAS, for Member States, Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (3) lays down specific data protection rules in the European Union which also apply to the exchanges of information effected by the Member States that are covered by the Agreement resulting from this Amending Protocol,
WHEREAS the protection of personal data in the Principality of Monaco is governed by Law No 1.165 of 23 December 1993 on the protection of personal data as amended by Law No 1.240 of 2 July 2001 and Law No 1.353 of 4 December 2008, which entered into force on 1 April 2009, including the conditions of implementation as set out in Sovereign Order No 2.230 of 19 June 2009 (4),
WHEREAS on the date of signing of this Amending Protocol the European Commission has not yet adopted a decision pursuant to Article 25(6) of Directive 95/46/EC finding that the Principality of Monaco ensures an adequate level of protection of personal data,
WHEREAS Contracting Parties undertake to implement and uphold the specific data protection safeguards set out in the Agreement resulting from this Amending Protocol, including Annex III thereto, in such a way as to ensure that neither Contracting Party may use any justification to refuse to exchange information with the other Contracting Party,
WHEREAS Reporting Financial Institutions, Sending Competent Authorities and Receiving Competent Authorities, as data controllers, should retain information processed in accordance with the Agreement resulting from this Amending Protocol for no longer than necessary to achieve the objectives thereof. Given the differences in the Member States' and the Principality of Monaco's legislation, the maximum retention period for each of the Contracting Parties should be set by reference to the statute of limitations provided by each data controller's domestic tax legislation,
WHEREAS the categories of Reporting Financial Institutions and Reportable Accounts covered by the Agreement resulting from this Amending Protocol are designed to limit the opportunities for taxpayers to avoid being reported by shifting assets to financial institutions or investing in financial products that are outside the scope of the Agreement resulting from this Amending Protocol. However, certain financial institutions and accounts that present a low risk of being used to evade tax should be excluded from the scope. Thresholds should not be generally included as it is easy to remain below them by splitting accounts among different financial institutions. The financial information which must be reported and exchanged should concern not only all relevant income (interests, dividends and similar types of income) but also account balances and sale proceeds from financial assets in order to address situations where a taxpayer seeks to hide capital that in itself represents income or assets with regard to which tax has been evaded. Therefore, the processing of information under the Agreement resulting from this Amending Protocol is necessary for and proportionate to the purpose of enabling Member States' and the Principality of Monaco's tax administrations to correctly and unequivocally identify the taxpayers concerned, administer and enforce their tax laws in cross-border situations, assess the likelihood of tax evasion being perpetrated and avoid unnecessary further investigations,
HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:
Article 1
The Agreement between the European Community and the Principality of Monaco providing for measures equivalent to those laid down in Council Directive 2003/48/EC is amended as follows:
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The title shall be replaced by: ‘Agreement between the European Union and the Principality of Monaco on the exchange of financial account information to improve international tax compliance in accordance with the Standard for Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information in Tax Matters developed by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)’; |
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Articles 1 to 21 are replaced by the following: ‘Article 1 Definitions 1. For the purposes of this Agreement the following terms shall have the following meanings:
2. Any capitalised term not otherwise defined in this Agreement shall have the meaning attributed to it at the time: (i) for Member States, by Council Directive 2011/16/EU on administrative cooperation in the field of taxation (5) or, where applicable, by the domestic law of the Member State applying the Agreement, and (ii) for Monaco, by its domestic law, such meaning being consistent with the meaning set forth in Annexes I and II. Any term not otherwise defined in this Agreement shall, unless the context requires otherwise or the Competent Authority of a Member State and the Competent Authority of Monaco agree to a common meaning as provided for in Article 7 (if permitted by domestic law), have the meaning that it has at that time under the law of the jurisdiction concerned applying this Agreement: (i) for Member States, by Council Directive 2011/16/EU on administrative cooperation in the field of taxation or, where applicable, the domestic law of the Member State concerned, and (ii) for Monaco, by its domestic law, any meaning attributed by the applicable tax laws of the jurisdiction concerned (a Member State or Monaco) prevailing over a meaning given to the term under other laws of that jurisdiction. Article 2 Automatic exchange of information with respect to Reportable Accounts 1. Pursuant to this Article, and subject to the applicable reporting and due diligence rules consistent with Annexes I and II, which shall form an integral part of this Agreement, the Competent Authority of Monaco shall each year exchange with each of the Member States' Competent Authorities, and each of the Member States' Competent Authorities shall each year exchange with the Competent Authority of Monaco, on an automatic basis, the information obtained pursuant to such rules and specified in paragraph 2. 2. The information to be exchanged is, in the case of a Member State with respect to each Monaco Reportable Account and in the case of Monaco with respect to each Member State Reportable Account:
Article 3 Time and manner of automatic exchange of information 1. For the purposes of the exchange of information provided for in Article 2, the amount and characterisation of payments made with respect to a Reportable Account may be determined in accordance with the principles of the tax laws of the jurisdiction (Member State or Monaco) exchanging the information. 2. For the purposes of the exchange of information provided for in Article 2, the information exchanged shall identify the currency in which each relevant amount is denominated. 3. With respect to Article 2(2), the information to be exchanged for 2017 and all subsequent years shall be exchanged within nine months after the end of the calendar year to which the information relates. 4. The Competent Authorities shall automatically exchange the information referred to in Article 2 using a common reporting standard scheme in XML (Extensible Markup Language). 5. The Competent Authorities shall agree on one or more methods for data transmission, including encryption standards. Article 4 Cooperation on compliance and enforcement The Competent Authority of a Member State must notify the Competent Authority of Monaco and the Competent Authority of Monaco must notify the Competent Authority of a Member State when the first-mentioned (notifying) Competent Authority has reason to believe that an error may have led to incorrect or incomplete information-reporting under Article 2, or that a Reporting Financial Institution is not complying with the applicable reporting requirements and due diligence procedures consistent with Annexes I and II. The notified Competent Authority shall take all appropriate measures available under its domestic law to address the errors or non-compliance described in the notice. Article 5 Exchange of information on request 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 2 and of any other agreement providing for information exchanges upon request between Monaco and the Competent Authority of any Member State, the Competent Authority of Monaco and the Competent Authority of any Member State shall exchange upon request such information as may be relevant for implementing this Agreement or for administering or enforcing domestic laws concerning taxes of any kind and description levied on behalf of Monaco and the Member States, or of their political subdivisions or local authorities, provided that the taxation under such domestic laws of the requesting State is not contrary to any applicable double taxation agreement between Monaco and the Member State concerned. 2. In no case shall the provisions of paragraph 1 of this Article and of Article 6 be interpreted as requiring Monaco or a Member State:
3. If information is requested by a Member State or by Monaco acting as the requesting jurisdiction in accordance with this Article, Monaco or the Member State acting as the requested jurisdiction shall use its information gathering resources to obtain the requested information, even though that requested jurisdiction may not need such information for its own tax purposes. The obligation laid down in the preceding sentence is subject to the limitations of paragraph 2 but in no case shall such limitations be construed as authorising the requested jurisdiction to refuse to supply information solely because it has no domestic interest in such information. 4. In no case shall paragraph 2 be construed as authorising Monaco or a Member State to refuse to supply information solely because the information is held by a bank, other financial institution, nominee or person acting in an agency or a fiduciary capacity or because it relates to ownership interests in a person. 5. The Competent Authorities shall agree on one or more methods for data transmission, including encryption standards, and on the standard forms to be used where applicable. Article 6 Confidentiality and personal data safeguards 1. In addition to the confidentiality rules and other safeguards provided for in the Agreement, including Annex III, the collection and exchange of information under the Agreement shall be subject: (i) in the case of Member States, to the laws and regulations of Member States implementing Directive 95/46/EC on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and (ii) in the case of Monaco, to Law No 1.165 of 23 December 1993 on personal data protection, as amended by Law No 1.240 of 2 July 2001 and Law No 1.353 of 4 December 2008, which entered into force on 1 April 2009, including the conditions of implementation set out in Sovereign Order No 2.230 of 19 June 2009. For the purpose of the correct application of Article 5, Member States shall restrict the scope of the obligations and rights provided for in Articles 10, 11(1), 12 and 21 of Directive 95/46/EC to the extent required to safeguard the interests referred to in Article 13(1)(e) of that Directive. Monaco shall take equivalent measures under its law. Notwithstanding the preceding subparagraph, each Member State and Monaco shall ensure that each Reporting Financial Institution under their jurisdiction informs each individual Reportable Person concerned (whether a Monaco Person or a Member State Person) that the information referred to in Article 2 relating to them will be collected and transferred in accordance with this Agreement and shall ensure that the Reporting Financial Institution gives that person all the information that they are entitled to under its domestic data protection legislation, and at the least the following:
This information must be provided in sufficient time for an individual to exercise their data protection rights and, in any case, before the Reporting Financial Institution concerned reports the information referred to in Article 2 to the Competent Authority of its jurisdiction of residence (a Member State or Monaco). The Member States and Monaco shall ensure that each individual Reportable Person (whether a Monaco Person or a Member State Person) is notified of a breach of security with regard to their data when that breach is likely to adversely affect the protection of their personal data or privacy. 2. Information processed in accordance with this Agreement shall be kept for no longer than necessary to achieve the purposes of this Agreement and, in any case, in accordance with each data controller's domestic rules on the statute of limitations. Reporting Financial Institutions and the Competent Authorities of each Member State and Monaco shall be considered to be data controllers, each with respect to the personal data it processes under this Agreement. Data controllers are responsible for enforcing personal-data protection safeguards, in accordance with the provisions on such safeguards in this Agreement and with the rights of the persons concerned. 3. Any information obtained by a jurisdiction (a Member State or Monaco) under this Agreement shall be treated as confidential and protected in the same manner as information obtained under the domestic law of that jurisdiction and, to the extent necessary for the protection of personal data, in accordance with the applicable domestic law, and with safeguards which may be specified by the jurisdiction supplying the information as required under its domestic law. 4. Such information shall in any case be disclosed only to persons or authorities (including courts and administrative or supervisory bodies) concerned with the assessment, collection or recovery of taxes, the enforcement of decisions, prosecutions and decisions on appeals in relation to taxes of that jurisdiction (a Member State or Monaco), or the oversight of these tasks. Only the persons or authorities mentioned above may use the information, and then only for purposes spelled out in the preceding sentence. Notwithstanding paragraph 3, they may disclose it in public court proceedings or in judicial decisions relating to such taxes, on condition, specifically with regard to the recovery of taxes, of obtaining a prior authorisation issued by the Competent Authority providing the information (whether Monaco or a Member State respectively). 5. Notwithstanding the preceding paragraphs, information received by a jurisdiction (a Member State or Monaco) may be used for other purposes where such information may be used for such other purposes under the laws, including the law on the protection of personal data, of the supplying jurisdiction (Monaco or a Member State) and where the Competent Authority of that jurisdiction authorises such use. Information provided by a jurisdiction (a Member State or Monaco) to another jurisdiction (Monaco or a Member State respectively) may be transmitted by the latter to a third jurisdiction (that is, another Member State), subject to the application of the safeguards provided for under this Article and to prior authorisation of the Competent Authority of the first-named jurisdiction from which the information originated, which authority must have received the necessary data for assessment of the application of the safeguards in question. Information provided by one Member State to another Member State under its law implementing Council Directive 2011/16/EU on administrative cooperation in the field of taxation may be transmitted to Monaco, subject to prior authorisation by the Competent Authority of the Member State from which the information originated. 6. Each Competent Authority of a Member State or of Monaco shall immediately notify the other Competent Authority, i.e. that of Monaco or of the Member State concerned, regarding any breach of confidentiality, failure of safeguards or any other breaches of data protection rules, and any sanctions and remedial measures consequently adopted. Article 7 Consultations and suspension of this Agreement 1. If any difficulties in the implementation or interpretation of this Agreement arise, the Competent Authorities of Monaco or of a Member State may request consultations between the Competent Authority of Monaco and one or more of the Competent Authorities of Member States to draw up appropriate measures to ensure that this Agreement is fulfilled. Those Competent Authorities shall immediately notify the European Commission and the Competent Authorities of the other Member States of the results of their consultations. The European Commission may take part in consultations on issues of interpretation at the request of any of the Competent Authorities. 2. If the consultations concern significant non-compliance with this Agreement, and the procedure set out in paragraph 1 does not provide for an adequate settlement, the Competent Authority of a Member State or Monaco may suspend the exchange of information under this Agreement with, respectively, Monaco or a specific Member State, by giving notice in writing to the other Competent Authority concerned. Such suspension shall have immediate effect. For the purposes of this paragraph, significant non-compliance includes, but is not limited to: (i) non-compliance with the confidentiality and data safeguard provisions of this Agreement, including Annex III, of Directive 95/46/EC and of Law No 1.165 of 23 December 1993 on personal data protection, as amended by Law No 1.240 of 2 July 2001 and Law No 1.353 of 4 December 2008, which entered into force on 1 April 2009, including the conditions of implementation set out in Sovereign Order No 2.230 of 19 June 2009, depending on the context, (ii) a failure by the Competent Authority of a Member State or Monaco to provide timely or adequate information as required under this Agreement, and (iii) the designation of Entities or accounts as Non-Reporting Financial Institutions and Excluded Accounts in a manner that frustrates the purposes of this Agreement. Article 8 Amendments 1. The Contracting Parties shall consult each other on any occasion an important change to any of the elements of the Standard for Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information developed by the OECD (the “Global Standard”) is adopted at OECD level or — if deemed necessary by the Contracting Parties — in order to improve the technical functioning of this Agreement or to assess and reflect other international developments. The consultations shall be held within one month of a request by either Contracting Party or as soon as possible in urgent cases. 2. On the basis of such a contact the Contracting Parties may consult each other in order to examine whether changes to this Agreement are necessary. 3. For the purposes of the consultations referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2, each Contracting Party shall inform the other Contracting Party of any developments which could affect the proper functioning of this Agreement. This includes any relevant agreement between one of the Contracting Parties and a third State. 4. Following the consultations, this Agreement may be amended by means of a protocol or a new agreement between the Contracting Parties. 5. Where a Contracting Party has implemented a change made by the OECD to the Global Standard and wishes to make a corresponding change in Annexes I and/or II to this Agreement, it shall notify the other Contracting Party thereof. A consultation procedure between the Contracting Parties shall take place within one month of this notification. Notwithstanding paragraph 4, if the Contracting Parties reach a consensus within this consultation procedure on the change that should be made to Annexes I and/or II to this Agreement, and for the period of time necessary for implementation of the change by a formal amendment of this Agreement, the Contracting Party that requested the change may provisionally apply the revised version of Annexes I and/or II to this Agreement, as approved during the consultation procedure, from 1 January of the year following that in which the aforementioned procedure was concluded. A Contracting Party is considered to have implemented a change to the Global Standard adopted by the OECD when:
Article 9 Termination Either Contracting Party may terminate this Agreement by giving notice of termination in writing to the other Contracting Party. Such termination shall become effective on the first day of the month following a period of 12 months from the date of the notice of termination. In the event of termination, all information previously received under this Agreement shall remain confidential and subject (i) in the case of Member States, to the provisions of Member States' laws and regulations implementing Directive 95/46/EC and (ii) in the case of Monaco, to the provisions of Law No 1.165 of 23 December 1993 on personal data protection as amended by Law No 1.240 of 2 July 2001 and Law No 1.353 of 4 December 2008, which entered into force on 1 April 2009, including the conditions of implementation set out in Sovereign Order No 2.230 of 19 June 2009, and in both cases to the specific data protection safeguards provided for in this Agreement, including those in Annex III. Article 10 Territorial Scope This Agreement shall apply, on the one hand, to the territories of the Member States in which the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union are applied and under the conditions laid down in those Treaties and, on the other hand, to the territory of Monaco as defined in Article 1(1)(c).’; |
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the Annexes are replaced by: ‘ANNEX I COMMON STANDARD ON REPORTING AND DUE DILIGENCE FOR FINANCIAL ACCOUNT INFORMATION (HEREINAFTER ‘COMMON REPORTING STANDARD’) SECTION I GENERAL REPORTING REQUIREMENTS
SECTION II GENERAL DUE DILIGENCE REQUIREMENTS
SECTION III DUE DILIGENCE FOR PRE-EXISTING INDIVIDUAL ACCOUNTS
SECTION IV DUE DILIGENCE FOR NEW INDIVIDUAL ACCOUNTS The following procedures apply for purposes of identifying Reportable Accounts among New Individual Accounts.
SECTION V DUE DILIGENCE FOR PREEXISTING ENTITY ACCOUNTS The following procedures apply for purposes of identifying Reportable Accounts among Pre-existing Entity Accounts.
SECTION VI DUE DILIGENCE FOR NEW ENTITY ACCOUNTS The following procedures apply for purposes of identifying Reportable Accounts among New Entity Accounts.
SECTION VII SPECIAL DUE DILIGENCE RULES The following additional rules apply in implementing the due diligence procedures described above:
SECTION VIII DEFINED TERMS The following terms have the meanings set forth below:
SECTION IX EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION Each Member State and Monaco must have rules and administrative procedures in place to ensure effective implementation of, and compliance with, the reporting and due diligence procedures set out above including:
‘ANNEX II COMPLEMENTARY REPORTING AND DUE DILIGENCE RULES FOR FINANCIAL ACCOUNT INFORMATION 1. Change in circumstances A ‘change in circumstances’ includes any change that results in the addition of information relevant to a person's status or otherwise conflicts with such person's status. In addition, a change in circumstances includes any change or addition of information to the Account Holder's account (including the addition, substitution, or other change of an Account Holder) or any change or addition of information to any account associated with such account (applying the account aggregation rules described in subparagraphs C(1) to (3) of Section VII of Annex I) if such change or addition of information affects the status of the Account Holder. If a Reporting Financial Institution has relied on the residence address test described in subparagraph B(1) of Section III of Annex I and there is a change in circumstances that causes the Reporting Financial Institution to know or have reason to know that the original Documentary Evidence (or other equivalent documentation ) is incorrect or unreliable, the Reporting Financial Institution must, by the latest on the last day of the relevant calendar year or other appropriate reporting period, or 90 calendar days following the notice or discovery of such change in circumstances, obtain a self-certification and new Documentary Evidence to establish the residence(s) for tax purposes of the Account Holder. If the Reporting Financial Institution cannot obtain the self-certification and new Documentary Evidence by such date, the Reporting Financial Institution must apply the electronic record search procedure described in subparagraphs B(2) to (6) of Section III of Annex I. 2. Self-certification for New Entity Accounts With respect to New Entity Accounts, for the purposes of determining whether a Controlling Person of a Passive NFE is a Reportable Person, a Reporting Financial Institution may only rely on a self-certification from either the Account Holder or the Controlling Person. 3. Residence of a Financial Institution A Financial Institution is ‘resident’ in a Member State, Monaco or another Participating Jurisdiction if it is subject to the jurisdiction of such Member State, Monaco or another Participating Jurisdiction (i.e., the Participating Jurisdiction is able to enforce reporting by the Financial Institution). In general, where a Financial Institution is resident for tax purposes in a Member State, Monaco or another Participating Jurisdiction, it is subject to the jurisdiction of such Member State, Monaco or another Participating Jurisdiction and it is, thus, a Member State Financial Institution, Monaco Financial Institution or another Participating Jurisdiction Financial Institution. In the case of a trust that is a Financial Institution (irrespective of whether it is resident for tax purposes in a Member State, Monaco or another Participating Jurisdiction), the trust is considered to be subject to the jurisdiction of a Member State, Monaco or another Participating Jurisdiction if one or more of its trustees are resident in such Member State, Monaco or another Participating Jurisdiction except if the trust reports all the information required to be reported pursuant to this Agreement or another agreement implementing the Global Standard with respect to Reportable Accounts maintained by the trust to another Participating Jurisdiction (a Member State, Monaco or another Participating Jurisdiction), because it is resident for tax purposes in such other Participating Jurisdiction. However, where a Financial Institution (other than a trust) does not have a residence for tax purposes (e.g., because it is treated as fiscally transparent, or it is located in a jurisdiction that does not have an income tax), it is considered to be subject to the jurisdiction of a Member State, Monaco or another Participating Jurisdiction and it is, thus, a Member State, Monaco or another Participating Jurisdiction Financial Institution if:
Where a Financial Institution (other than a trust) is resident in two or more Participating Jurisdictions (a Member State, Monaco or another Participating Jurisdiction), such Financial Institution will be subject to the reporting and due diligence obligations of the Participating Jurisdiction in which it maintains the Financial Account(s). 4. Accounts maintained by a Financial Institution In general, an account should be considered to be an account maintained by a Financial Institution:
5. Trusts that are Passive NFEs An Entity such as a partnership, limited liability partnership or similar legal arrangement that has no residence for tax purposes, according to subparagraph D(3) of Section VIII of Annex I, shall be treated as resident in the jurisdiction in which its place of effective management is situated. For these purposes, a legal person or a legal arrangement is considered ‘similar’ to a partnership and a limited liability partnership where it is not treated as a taxable unit in a Reportable Jurisdiction under the tax laws of such Reportable Jurisdiction. However, in order to avoid duplicate reporting (given the wide scope of the term ‘Controlling Persons’ in the case of trusts), a trust that is a Passive NFE may not be considered a similar legal arrangement. 6. Address of Entity's principal office One of the requirements described in subparagraph E(6)(c) of Section VIII of Annex I is that, with respect to an Entity, the official documentation includes either the address of the Entity's principal office in the Member State, Monaco or other jurisdiction in which it claims to be a resident or the Member State, Monaco or other jurisdiction in which the Entity was incorporated or organised. The address of the Entity's principal office is generally the place in which its place of effective management is situated. The address of a Financial Institution with which the Entity maintains an account, a post office box, or an address used solely for mailing purposes is not the address of the Entity's principal office unless such address is the only address used by the Entity and appears as the Entity's registered address in the Entity's organisational documents. Further, an address that is provided subject to instructions to hold all mail to that address is not the address of the Entity's principal office. ‘ANNEX III ADDITIONAL DATA PROTECTION SAFEGUARDS REGARDING THE TREATMENT OF THE DATA COLLECTED AND EXCHANGED UNDER THIS AGREEMENT 1. Definitions The following terms and expressions shall have the meaning assigned to them hereinafter when used under this Agreement:
2. Non-discrimination The Contracting Parties shall ensure that the safeguards applicable to the processing of personal data under this Agreement and relevant national laws apply to all individuals without discrimination, in particular on the basis of nationality or country of residence or physical appearance. 3. Data The data processed by the Contracting Parties under this Agreement shall be relevant, necessary and proportionate to the purposes set out in this Agreement. The Contracting Parties shall not exchange personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, or data concerning the health or sex life of the individual. 4. Right to information, right of access and rectification and erasure of data Where the information is used for other purposes within the receiving jurisdiction or is transmitted by the receiving jurisdiction to a third jurisdiction (a Member State or Monaco) in accordance with Article 6(5) of the Agreement, the Competent Authority of the jurisdiction receiving the information and using it for other purposes or forwarding it to a third jurisdiction shall inform the persons concerned. This information shall be provided in sufficient time for the individual(s) concerned to exercise their data protection rights and, in any case, before the receiving jurisdiction has used the information for other purposes or transmitted it to the third jurisdiction. With respect to any personal data processed under this Agreement, any individual shall have the right to request access to personal data relating to them that are processed by the Reporting Financial Institutions and/or the Competent Authorities and to rectify such data where they are inaccurate. Where the data is unlawfully processed the individual may request their erasure. To facilitate the exercise of this right, each individual shall be entitled to submit requests for access to and rectification and/or erasure of their data; these requests shall be addressed to the other Competent Authority concerned through their own Competent Authority. The requested Competent Authority shall provide access to the relevant data and, where appropriate, update and/or correct any inaccurate or incomplete data. 5. Right of redress With respect to any personal data processed under this Agreement, any individual shall have the right to effective administrative and judicial redress regardless of their nationality and country of residence in either or all of the jurisdictions involved. 6. Automated processing The Competent Authorities shall not take any decision which produces adverse legal effects concerning an individual or significantly affects them and which is based solely on automated processing of data intended to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to them. 7. Transfers to authorities of third countries A Competent Authority may occasionally transfer personal data received pursuant to this Agreement to public authorities of third jurisdictions, other than the Member States and Monaco, if all of the following circumstances apply:
Any other transfers of information received pursuant to this Agreement to third parties is prohibited. 8. Data integrity and security With respect to the information processed under this Agreement, the Contracting Parties and the Reporting Financial Institutions shall have in place:
The Contracting Parties shall ensure that the Reporting Financial Institutions shall without delay notify the Competent Authority in their jurisdiction when they have reasons to believe that they have reported any incorrect or incomplete information to such Competent Authority. The notified Competent Authority shall take all appropriate measures available under its domestic law to address the errors described in the notice. 9. Sanctions The Contracting Parties shall ensure that any infringement of the provisions on the protection of personal data set out in this Agreement shall be subject to effective and dissuasive sanctions. 10. Oversight The processing of personal data by Reporting Financial Institutions and Competent Authorities under this Agreement shall be subject to the supervision of: (i) for Member States, the national data protection supervisory authorities established under their domestic laws implementing Directive 95/46/EC and (ii) for Monaco, the Commission de contrôle des informations nominatives (Monaco's Data Protection Authority). Those data protection supervisory authorities of the Member States and Monaco must have effective powers of oversight, investigation, intervention and review, and must have the power to refer violations of law for legal action, where appropriate. They shall in particular ensure that complaints relating to non-compliance are received, investigated, responded to, and appropriately redressed. ‘ANNEX IV LIST OF COMPETENT AUTHORITIES OF THE CONTRACTING PARTIES For the purposes of this Agreement, the authorities listed below are ‘Competent Authorities’ of the Contracting Parties:
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Article 2
Entry into force and application
1. This Amending Protocol is concluded subject to its ratification or approval by the Contracting Parties in accordance with their internal procedures. The Contracting Parties shall notify each other of the completion of these procedures. This Amending Protocol shall enter into force on the first day of the second month following the last notification.
2. Subject to the fulfilment of the institutional procedures by the Principality of Monaco and of those procedures required by European Union law for the conclusion of international agreements, the Principality of Monaco and the European Union, as the context requires, will implement and effectively apply the Agreement resulting from this Amending Protocol from 1 January 2017 and notify each other accordingly.
3. Notwithstanding paragraphs 1 and 2, the Contracting Parties shall provisionally apply this Amending Protocol pending its entry into force. Such provisional application shall commence on 1 January 2017, subject to notification by each of the Contracting Parties to the other by 31 December 2016 of the completion of its respective internal procedures necessary for such provisional application.
4. Notwithstanding paragraphs 2 and 3, the following obligations under the Agreement in the form prior to its amendment by this Amending Protocol shall continue to apply, as follows:
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the obligations of the Principality of Monaco and the underlying obligations of paying agents established therein referred to in Articles 8 and 9 of the Agreement in the form prior to its amendment by this Amending Protocol shall continue to apply until 30 June 2017 or until those obligations have been fulfilled; |
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the obligations of Member States referred to in Article 10 of the Agreement in the form prior to its amendment by this Amending Protocol with regard to withholding tax levied during 2016 and previous years shall continue to apply until those obligations have been fulfilled. |
Article 3
The Agreement is supplemented by a Protocol with the following content:
‘Protocol to the Agreement between the European Union and the Principality of Monaco on the exchange of financial account information to improve international tax compliance in accordance with the Standard for Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information developed by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
On the occasion of the signature of this Amending Protocol between the European Union and the Principality of Monaco the duly authorised undersigned have agreed the following provisions which shall form an integral part of this Agreement as amended by this Amending Protocol:
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It is understood that an exchange of information under Article 5 of this Agreement will be requested only once the requesting State (a Member State or Monaco) has exhausted all regular sources of information available under the internal taxation procedure. |
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It is understood that the Competent Authority of the requesting State (a Member State or Monaco) shall provide the following information to the Competent Authority of the requested State (respectively, Monaco or a Member State) when making a request for information under Article 5 of this Agreement:
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It is understood that the reference to the standard of ‘foreseeable relevance’ is intended to provide for an exchange of information under Article 5 of this Agreement to the widest possible extent and, at the same time, to clarify that Member States and Monaco are not at liberty to engage in ‘fishing expeditions’ or to request information that is unlikely to be relevant to the tax affairs of a given taxpayer. While paragraph 2 contains important procedural requirements that are intended to ensure that fishing expeditions do not occur, nevertheless clauses (i) to (v) of that paragraph are not to be interpreted in order to frustrate effective exchange of information. The standard of ‘foreseeable relevance’ can be met both in cases dealing with one taxpayer (whether identified by name or otherwise) or several taxpayers (whether identified by name or otherwise). |
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It is understood that this Agreement does not include the exchange of information on a spontaneous basis. |
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It is understood that in case of an exchange of information under Article 5 of this Agreement, the administrative procedural rules regarding taxpayers' rights provided for in the requested State (a Member State or Monaco) remain applicable. It is further understood that these provisions aim at guaranteeing the taxpayer a fair procedure and not at preventing or unduly delaying the exchange of information process.’. |
Article 4
Languages
This Amending Protocol is drawn up in duplicate in the Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish languages, each of these texts being equally authentic.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned Plenipotentiaries have hereunto set their hands.
Съставено в Брюксел на дванадесети юли през две хиляди и шестнадесета година.
Hecho en Bruselas, el doce de julio de dos mil dieciséis.
V Bruselu dne dvanáctého července dva tisíce šestnáct.
Udfærdiget i Bruxelles den tolvte juli to tusind og seksten.
Geschehen zu Brüssel am zwölften Juli zweitausendsechzehn.
Kahe tuhande kuueteistkümnenda aasta juulikuu kaheteistkümnendal päeval Brüsselis.
Έγινε στις Βρυξέλλες, στις δώδεκα Ιουλίου δύο χιλιάδες δεκαέξι.
Done at Brussels on the twelfth day of July in the year two thousand and sixteen.
Fait à Bruxelles, le douze juillet deux mille seize.
Sastavljeno u Bruxellesu dvanaestog srpnja godine dvije tisuće šesnaeste.
Fatto a Bruxelles, addì dodici luglio duemilasedici.
Briselē, divi tūkstoši sešpadsmitā gada divpadsmitajā jūlijā.
Priimta du tūkstančiai šešioliktų metų liepos dvyliktą dieną Briuselyje.
Kelt Brüsszelben, a kétezer-tizenhatodik év július havának tizenkettedik napján.
Magħmul fi Brussell, fit-tnax-il jum ta’ Lulju fis-sena elfejn u sittax.
Gedaan te Brussel, twaalf juli tweeduizend zestien.
Sporządzono w Brukseli dnia dwunastego lipca roku dwa tysiące szesnastego.
Feito em Bruxelas, em doze de julho de dois mil e dezasseis.
Întocmit la Bruxelles la doisprezece iulie două mii șaisprezece.
V Bruseli dvanásteho júla dvetisícšestnásť.
V Bruslju, dne dvanajstega julija leta dva tisoč šestnajst.
Tehty Brysselissä kahdentenatoista päivänä heinäkuuta vuonna kaksituhattakuusitoista.
Som skedde i Bryssel den tolfte juli år tjugohundrasexton.
За Европейския съюз
Рог la Unión Europea
Za Evropskou unii
For Den Europæiske Union
Für die Europäische Union
Euroopa Liidu nimel
Για την Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση
For the European Union
Pour l'Union européenne
Za Europsku uniju
Per l'Unione europea
Eiropas Savienības vārdā –
Europos Sąjungos vardu
Az Európai Unió részéről
Għall-Unjoni Ewropea
Voor de Europese Unie
W imieniu Unii Europejskiej
Pela União Europeia
Pentru Uniunea Europeană
Za Európsku úniu
Za Evropsko unijo
Euroopan unionin puolesta
För Europeiska unionen
За Княжество Монако
Por el Principado de Mónaco
Za Monacké knížectví
For Fyrstendømmet Monaco
Für das Fürstentum Monaco
Monaco Vürstiriigi nimel
Για το Πριγκιπάτο του Μονακό
For the Principality of Monaco
Pour la Principauté de Monaco
Za Kneževinu Monako
Per il Principato di Monaco
Monako Firstistes vārdā –
Monako Kunigaikštystės vardu
A Monacói Hercegség részéről
Għall-Prinċipat ta' Monaco
Voor het Vorstendom Monaco
W imieniu Księstwa Monako
Pelo Principado do Mónaco
Pentru Principatul Monaco
Za Monacké kniežatstvo
Za Kneževino Monako
Monacon ruhtinaskunnan puolesta
För Furstendömet Monaco
(1) OJ EU L 157, 26.6.2003, p. 38.
(2) OJ EU L 19, 21.1.2005, p. 55.
(3) OJ EU L 281, 23.11.1995, p. 31.
(4) ‘Journal de Monaco’, the official bulletin of the Principality, No 7918 of 26 June 2009.
DECLARATIONS OF THE CONTRACTING PARTIES:
JOINT DECLARATION BY THE CONTRACTING PARTIES ON COMPLIANCE WITH THE GLOBAL STANDARD
The Contracting Parties agree on the compliance with the Global Standard of the provisions on the automatic exchange of information contained:
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in Council Directive 2011/16/EU on administrative cooperation in the field of taxation, as amended by Council Directive 2014/107/EU, |
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in the Agreement and its annexes, and |
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in other agreements that the European Union has negotiated in parallel on the same subject matter with the Swiss Confederation, the Principality of Andorra, the Principality of Liechtenstein and the Republic of San Marino, although some of these agreements contain further details concerning confidentiality and data protection because of the different positions on the subject of the Principality of Monaco and these four other countries, to the extent strictly necessary to allow the European Union Member States to comply with the requirements imposed on them by Union law in their relations with jurisdictions outside the European Union. |
JOINT DECLARATION OF THE CONTRACTING PARTIES ON THE AGREEMENT AND THE ANNEXES
The Contracting Parties agree, regarding the implementation of the Agreement and Annexes I and II thereto, to use the Commentaries to the OECD Model Competent Authority Agreement and Common Reporting Standard as a source of illustration or interpretation and in order to ensure consistency in application.
JOINT DECLARATION OF THE CONTRACTING PARTIES ON ARTICLE 5 OF THE AGREEMENT
The Contracting Parties agree, regarding the implementation of Article 5 of the Agreement on the Exchange of Information upon Request, that the Commentary to Article 26 of the OECD Model Tax Convention on Income and on Capital should be a source of interpretation.
JOINT DECLARATION BY THE CONTRACTING PARTIES ON ARTICLE 2 OF THE AMENDING PROTOCOL
With reference to Article 2 of the Amending Protocol, the Contracting Parties agree that the provisional application of the Amending Protocol implies:
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that the Principality of Monaco and the Member States and their financial institutions shall apply the reporting and due diligence rules consistent with Annexes I and II as of 1 January 2017 in view of meeting their obligations under Article 3(3) of the Agreement as amended by this Amending Protocol. The obligations laid down in Article 3(3) of the Agreement as amended by this Amending Protocol shall not, however, be applicable to the Contracting Parties until the requirements for entry into force laid down in Article 2(1) of the Amending Protocol are met, |
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that the Member States are authorised from 1 January 2017 to send requests for information to the Principality of Monaco under Article 5 of the Agreement as amended by this Amending Protocol but the Principality of Monaco may choose to respond to such requests only after the conditions for entry into force laid down in Article 2(1) of the Amending Protocol are met, |
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that the Principality of Monaco and its financial institutions, taking into account the provisional application of this Amending Protocol, may choose to suspend application of their obligations under the Agreement between the European Community and the Principality of Monaco providing for measures equivalent to those laid down in Council Directive 2003/48/EC in the form prior to its amendment by this Amending Protocol from 1 January 2017, unless otherwise specified in Article 2(4) of the Amending Protocol. |