1. [Grounds] The requested Focal Point can decline to obtain or provide information:
a)
[Domestic legality] which the requesting Focal Point would not be able to obtain under its own laws for purposes of verifying its own asset declarations;
b)
[Legality] if the request is not made in conformity with this Treaty;
c)
[Ordre public] if the requested Focal Point considers the disclosure of the information to be contrary to the ordre public or other essential interests of the Party having established it;
d)
[Quantity] if the requested Focal Point considers that the overall amount of requests received by it from Focal Points in the past twelve months exceeds the number it can reasonably administer;
e)
[Impossibility] if it is de facto impossible for the requested Focal Point to obtain the data (Article 4 paragraph 6).
2. [Feedback] If a Focal Point decides to decline a request in accordance with