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232 Travaux préparatoires: United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime“(i) The identity, nature, composition, structure, location or activities of organizedcriminal groups;“(ii) Links, including international links, with other organized criminal groups; 14“(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 15 of an accused person who providessubstantial cooperation in the investigation or prosecution of any of the offences coveredby this Convention.“3. 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].“4. Protection of such persons shall be as provided for in article 18 of thisConvention.“5. 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 3 of this article.”Notes by the Secretariat3. At its eighth session, the Ad Hoc Committee provisionally approved article 18 ter,subject to the resolution of some issues that would need to be discussed in the light of thefinalization of other provisions of the convention, in particular article 2 (see A/AC.254/28,para. 12). At its tenth session, the Ad Hoc Committee considered, finalized and approvedarticle 18 ter, as amended. The last amendments are reflected in the final text of the convention,as included in the report of the Ad Hoc Committee (see A/55/383, sect. IV, draftresolution, annex I), that was submitted to the General Assembly for adoption pursuant toresolution 54/126 of 17 December 1999.14At the eighth session of the Ad Hoc Committee, Turkey reserved its position on the use of the term “organizedcriminal groups” until the finalization of article 2 bis of the draft convention.15This phrase might include not only prescribed but also de facto mitigation of punishment (see the interpretative notein section C below).