administrative enquirymeans all controls, checks and other action taken by the staff of the administrative authorities specified in Article 1 (1) in the performance of their duties with a view to ensuring proper application of customs and agricultural legislation and, where necessary, checking the irregular nature of operations which appear to breach that legislation, except action taken at the request of or under a direct mandate from a judicial authority;
agricultural legislationmeans the body of provisions adopted under the common agricultural policy and the special rules adopted with regard to goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products,
applicant authoritymeans the competent authority of a Member State which makes a request for assistance,
carriersmeans the persons within the meaning of point 40 of Article 5 of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013.
competent authoritiesmeans the authorities appointed in accordance with the preceding subparagraph.
customs legislationmeans customs legislation as defined in point 2 of Article 5 of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council,
customs territory of the Unionmeans the customs territory of the Union as defined in Article 4 of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013,
occasional automatic exchangemeans the systematic communication of predefined information, without prior request, as and when that information becomes available,
operational analysismeans analysis of operations which constitute, or appear to constitute, breaches of customs or agricultural legislation, involving the following stages in turn:
personal datameans all information relating to an identified or identifiable individual;
regular automatic exchangemeans the systematic communication of predefined information, without prior request, at pre-established regular intervals,
requested authoritymeans the competent authority of a Member State to which a request for assistance is made,
strategic analysismeans research and presentation of the general trends in breaches of customs and agricultural legislation through an evaluation of the threat, scale and impact of certain types of operation in breach of customs and agricultural legislation, with a view to subsequently setting priorities, gaining a better picture of the phenomenon or threat, reorienting action to prevent and detect fraud and reviewing departmental organisation.