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Part One. Article 16 143Parties. The Parties undertake to include such offences as extraditable offences inevery extradition treaty to be concluded between them.“Option 1“3. If a State Party that makes extradition conditional on the existence of atreaty receives a request for extradition from another Party with which it has no extraditiontreaty, it may 1 [, at its option,] consider this Convention the legal basis forextradition in respect of any offence to which this article applies. [Extradition shallbe subject to the other conditions provided for by the law of the requested State.]The Parties that require detailed legislation in order to use this Convention as a legalbasis for extradition shall consider enacting such legislation as may be necessary. 2“Option 2“3. If a State Party that makes extradition conditional on the existence of atreaty receives a request for extradition from another State Party with which it hasno extradition treaty, it shall consider the present Convention the legal basis for extraditionin respect of any offence to which this article applies. [Extradition shall besubject to the other conditions provided for by the law of the requested State.] TheParties that require detailed legislation in order to use this Convention as a legal basisfor extradition shall consider enacting such legislation as may be necessary.“4. States Parties that do not make extradition conditional on the existence ofa treaty shall recognize offences to which this article applies as extraditable offencesbetween them [, subject to the conditions provided for by the law of the requestedState]. 3“Option 1“5. Extradition shall be subject to the conditions provided for by the law ofthe requested State Party or by applicable extradition treaties, including the groundsupon which the requested Party may refuse extradition.“Option 2“5. With respect to the offences as [defined] [covered] in this Convention, theprovisions of all extradition treaties and arrangements applicable between StatesParties are modified as between States Parties to the extent necessary to give effectto the provisions of this Convention.“[6. The offences established in article(s) [...] [alternatively: the offences coveredby this Convention] shall be treated, for the purposes of extradition betweenStates Parties, as if they had been committed not only in the place in which theyoccurred but also in a place within the jurisdiction of the State Party requesting extradition.]1It was suggested that, as demonstrated in the implementation of similarly formulated provisions in the United NationsConvention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances of 1988 (United Nations, Treaty Series,vol. 1582, No. 27627), the use of the word “may” provided States with extensive discretion, which entailed the risk of renderingsuch a provision ineffective.2It was suggested that the word “shall” as used in this option would give preferential status to this convention inextradition. Such a course of action would require much more detailed provisions on extradition.3It was suggested that the substance of this paragraph could be integrated with a more general article on the relationshipof this convention to other bilateral or multilateral treaties.