The Recovery of Import Duties and Export Duties (Andorra) Regulations 2010

Requests for Information – procedure following receipt of the request

4.—(1) The Commissioners shall—

(a) acknowledge receipt of a request for information in writing as soon as possible and in any event within seven days of receipt;

(b) transmit to the applicant authority each item of requested information as and when it is obtained;

(c) where all or some of the requested information cannot be obtained within a reasonable time, so inform the applicant authority, indicating the reasons; and

(d) no later than six months from the date of acknowledgement of the request, report to the applicant authority the outcome of the investigations which they have conducted in order to obtain the information requested.

(2) The applicant authority may, upon receipt of the report referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(d), ask the Commissioners to continue their investigations.

(3) The request referred to in paragraph (2) shall be made in writing within two months of receipt of the report and shall be dealt with by the Commissioners in accordance with the provisions applying to the original request.

(4) The Commissioners shall, as soon as possible, give notice to the applicant authority of such additional particulars as may be necessary to execute the request.

(5) The Commissioners shall be under no obligation to execute a request for information until the applicant authority has complied, so far as it is able, with any request made of it under paragraph (4).