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118 Travaux préparatoires: United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crimeprovisions of its domestic law and its procedural rules or any bilateral or multilateraltreaty, agreement or arrangement to which it may be bound in relation to therequesting State Party.“4. The provisions of article 14 are applicable mutatis mutandis. In additionto the information specified in paragraph 10 of article 14, requests made pursuant tothis article shall contain the following:“(a) In the case of a request pertaining to subparagraph 1 (a) of this article, adescription of the property to be confiscated and a statement of the facts relied uponby the requesting State Party sufficient to enable the requested State Party to seekthe order under its domestic law;“(b) In the case of a request pertaining to subparagraph 1 (b) of this article, alegally admissible copy of an order of confiscation issued by the requesting StateParty upon which the request is based, a statement of the facts and information as tothe extent to which the execution of the order is requested;“(c) In the case of a request pertaining to paragraph 2 of this article, a statementof the facts relied upon by the requesting State Party and a description of theactions requested.“5. Each State Party shall furnish the Secretary-General with the text of anyof its laws and regulations that give effect to this paragraph and the text of any subsequentchanges to such laws and regulations.“6. If a State Party elects to make the taking of the measures referred to inparagraphs 1 and 2 of this article conditional on the existence of a relevant treaty,that Party shall consider this Convention the necessary and sufficient treaty basis.“7. States Parties shall seek to conclude bilateral and multilateral treaties,agreements or arrangements to enhance the effectiveness of international cooperationpursuant to this article.“8. Cooperation under this article may be refused by a State Party if the offenceto which the request relates would not be an offence in the context of a criminalorganization if committed within its jurisdiction. 2“9. The provisions of this article shall not be construed to prejudice the rightsof bona fide third parties.”Fifth session: 4-15 October 1999Notes by the Secretariat2. Delegations based their comments on the text of article 7 bis of the revised draftconvention contained in document A/AC.254/4/Rev.4, which was the same as that containedin document A/AC.254/4/Rev.3.2One delegation suggested that this paragraph should be clarified in respect of the phrase “an offence in the contextof a criminal organization”. Another delegation noted the need for further specification of grounds for refusal.