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100 Travaux préparatoires: United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crimeis covered by this Convention and who is found within its territory is present at thenecessary criminal proceedings.]” 16Rolling text (A/AC.254/4/Rev.4)“Article 6“Prosecution, adjudication and sanctions 17“1. Each State Party shall make the commission of an offence covered by thisConvention 18 liable to sanctions that take into account the grave nature of thoseoffences.“2. Each State Party shall endeavour to ensure that any discretionary legalpowers under its domestic law relating to the prosecution of persons for offences thatare covered by this Convention are exercised to maximize the effectiveness of lawenforcement measures in respect of those offences and with due regard to the needto deter the commission of such offences.“[3. Each State Party shall ensure that its courts or other competent authoritiesbear in mind the grave nature of the offences that are covered by this Conventionwhen considering the [eventuality] [possibility] of early release or parole of personsconvicted of such offences.]“4. Each State Party shall, where appropriate, establish under its domestic lawa long statute of limitations period in which to commence proceedings for any offencecovered by this Convention and a longer period where the alleged offender has evadedthe administration of justice.“[5. In the case of offences established in accordance with articles [...] of thisConvention, each State Party shall take appropriate measures, [consistent with its legalsystem,] with due regard to the rights of the defence, to seek to ensure that conditionsimposed in connection with decisions on release pending trial or appeal takeinto consideration the need to ensure the presence of the defendant at subsequentcriminal proceedings.] 19 ”16This paragraph was derived from article 3, paragraph 9, of the 1988 Convention. A number of delegations were ofthe view that this paragraph should be moved to article 10, on extradition. Other delegations, however, pointed out that, inview of the seriousness of the offences covered by the draft convention, the purpose of this paragraph would be to ensurethe presence of the defendant also for domestic proceedings.17See also footnote 13, above. India supported the retention of article 6, paragraph 4, contained in documentA/AC.254/4/Rev.3 and proposed the following formulation:“Each State Party shall adopt legislative and other measures, as may be necessary, to establish as criminaloffences the conduct constituting the perpetration of any crime covered by this Convention from its ownterritory in the territory of any other State by an organized criminal group or a member thereof.”This formulation was supported by some delegations. Other delegations wished to discuss further the proposal and itsplacement in the draft convention.18The use of the phrase “an offence covered by this Convention” should be reviewed once the scope of the conventionhas been determined.19This paragraph is a revision of paragraph 11 of article 6 (see A/AC.254/4/Rev.3) proposed by Finland at the requestof the Chairman. It was not discussed at the fourth session of the Ad Hoc Committee.