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Part One. Article 26 231“(a) To supply information useful to competent authorities for investigative andevidentiary purposes on such matters as:“(i) The identity, nature, composition, structure or activities of organized criminalgroups;“(ii) Links, including international links, with other organized criminal groups; 12“(iii) Offences that organized criminal groups have committed or may commit;“(b) To provide factual, concrete help to competent authorities that may contributeto depriving organized criminal groups of their resources or of the proceedsof crime.“2. Each State Party shall give consideration to providing for the possibilityof, in appropriate cases, mitigating punishment of an accused person who providessubstantial cooperation in the investigation or prosecution of any of the offences coveredby 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]. 13“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 inparagraphs 2 and 2 bis of this article.”Rolling text (A/AC.254/4/Rev.8)Eighth session: 21 February-3 March 2000“Article 18 ter“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:“(a) To supply information useful to competent authorities for investigative andevidentiary purposes on such matters as:12At the informal consultations held during the seventh session of the Ad Hoc Committee, Turkey expressed its preferencefor using the term “criminal organizations”.13There was considerable discussion on this paragraph at the informal consultations held during the seventh session ofthe Ad Hoc Committee. Following the discussion and several drafting proposals, the Chairman asked interested delegationsto reflect on the caveats already included in the paragraph, which were designed to allay juridical concerns and to take intoaccount differences in legal systems, and to determine whether there was a need for an amended formulation for considerationat the eighth session of the Ad Hoc Committee. The concern expressed by the Netherlands regarding the potential effectsof this paragraph on international cooperation was met by including a reference to this paragraph in paragraph 4.