Q&A

What is a competent authority determination?

What is a competent authority determination?

A Competent Authority Arrangement is a bilateral agreement between the United States and the treaty partner to clarify or interpret treaty provisions. The Competent Authority Arrangements for purposes of Country-by-Country exchange can be found separately on the Jurisdiction Status Table page.

What is the role of the competent authority?

A competent authority is a term used in tax treaties to identify the position, person, or body to whom issues can be addressed to ensure a good faith application of a double taxation convention2 and who will endeavour to resolve such issues in accordance with the applicable tax convention.

What is a competent authority in the EU?

The competent authority belongs to the government of the Member State of the European Union (EU) and their responsibility is to transposes the requirements of European regulations into national legislation. The competent national authorities supervise compliance with national statutes and regulations.

Who is the competent authority in the United States?

Competent Authority means a national agency that is responsible, under its national law, for the control or regulation of some aspect of hazardous materials (dangerous goods) transportation.

Which authority can act as focal point?

It is the responsibility of national medicine regulatory authorities to inform the WHO Secretariat of any changes in personnel or contact details. The designated focal point is to act only on behalf of its national medicines regulatory authority and not in his/her personal capacity.

What is Competent Authority example?

If you are not listed in Schedule 7, you may still be a competent authority if you have a legal power to process personal data for law enforcement purposes. For example, local authorities who prosecute trading standards offences or the Environment Agency when prosecuting environmental offences.

Is EMA a Competent Authority?

The European Medicines Agency works closely with the national competent authorities of the Member States of the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA) responsible for human medicines.

What is the difference between competent authority and notified body?

Each European country has a Competent Authority, a government agency responsible for overseeing the enforcement of medical device regulations. EU Notified Bodies are supervised by the Competent Authority (Ministry of Health or National Authority) in the European country in which they are based.

Who all comes under competent authority?

A competent authority is any person or organization that has the legally delegated or invested authority, capacity, or power to perform a designated function. Similarly, once an authority is delegated to perform a certain act, only the competent authority is entitled to take accounts therefrom and no one else.

Who is India’s competent authority?

(1) The Central Government may, by order published in the Official Gazette, authorise as many officers of the Central Government (not below the rank of a Joint Secretary to the Government), as it thinks fit, to perform the functions of the competent authority under this Act.