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230 Travaux préparatoires: United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime“(iii) Offences that criminal organizations have committed or might commit;“(b) To provide factual, concrete help to competent authorities that may contributeto depriving criminal organizations of their resources or of the proceeds ofcrime. 8“2. Each State Party shall provide for the possibility of, in appropriate cases,mitigating punishment 9 of an accused person who provides substantial cooperation inthe investigation or prosecution of [an offence established in article [...] of [any ofthe offences covered by] this Convention.“2 bis. Each State Party shall give consideration to providing, in accordance withits fundamental legal principles, the possibility of granting immunity from prosecutionto a person who provides substantial cooperation in the investigation or prosecutionof [any of the offences established in articles [...] of this Convention] [anoffence covered by this Convention]. 10“3. Protection of such persons shall be as provided for in article 18 of thisConvention.“4. Where a person referred to in paragraph 1 of this article can provide substantialcooperation to the competent authorities of another State, the States Partiesconcerned may consider entering into arrangements, in accordance with domestic law,concerning the potential provision by the other State of the treatment described inparagraph 2 of this article.Seventh session: 17-28 January 2000Notes by the Secretariat2. Delegations based their comments on the text of article 18 ter 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 18 ter 11“Measures to enhance cooperation with law enforcement authorities“1. States Parties shall take appropriate measures to encourage persons whoparticipate or who have participated in organized criminal groups covered by thisConvention:8Proposal submitted by Germany at the fifth session of the Ad Hoc Committee, at the request of the Chairman, toreplace former paragraph 1 of this article.9The United States indicated that this phrase might include not only prescribed but also de facto mitigation of punishment.That view was supported by many delegations.10Paragraphs 2 and 2 bis constituted a reformulation of former paragraph 2 that reflected the concerns expressed atthe fifth session of the Ad Hoc Committee.11Except where indicated otherwise, the text of this article was provisionally approved at the informal consultationsheld during the seventh session of the Ad Hoc Committee and recommended by the Chairmen of the informal consultationsas the basis for the consideration and approval of the article by the Ad Hoc Committee at its eighth session.