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120 Travaux préparatoires: United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime“5. Each State Party shall furnish the Secretary-General of the United Nationswith the text of any of its laws and regulations that give effect to this article and thetext of any subsequent changes 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 [covered by this Convention]. 5“9. The provisions of this article shall not be construed to prejudice the rightsof bona fide third parties.”Seventh session: 17-28 January 2000Notes by the Secretariat3. Delegations based their comments on the text of article 7 bis of the revised draftconvention contained in document A/AC.254/4/Rev.6, which was the same as that containedin document A/AC.254/4/Rev.5.Rolling text (A/AC.254/4/Rev.7)“Article 7 bis 6“International cooperation for purposes of confiscation“1. A State Party that has received a request from another State Party havingjurisdiction over an offence covered by this Convention for confiscation of proceedsof crime, property, instrumentalities or any other things referred to in paragraph 1 ofarticle 7, situated in its territory, shall:“(a) Submit the request to its competent authorities for the purpose of obtainingan order of confiscation and, if such order is granted, give effect to it; or“(b) Submit to its competent authorities, with a view to giving effect to it tothe extent requested, an order of confiscation issued by a court in the requesting Partyin accordance with paragraph 1 of article 7, insofar as it relates to proceeds of crime,5The text of this paragraph as it appeared in document A/AC.254/4/Rev.4 referred to “an offence in the context of acriminal organization if committed within its jurisdiction”. At the fifth session of the Ad Hoc Committee, the text wasamended on the basis of a proposal by France, as indicated in square brackets.6The text of this article was provisionally approved at the informal consultations held during the seventh session ofthe Ad Hoc Committee and recommended by the Chairmen of the informal consultations as the basis for the considerationand approval of the article by the Ad Hoc Committee at its eighth session.