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Part One. Article 28 247“3. Each State Party shall consider monitoring its policies and actual measuresto combat organized crime and making assessments of their effectiveness and efficiency.[Paragraph 4 is deleted, with its substance to be reflected in article 23 bis]”Rolling text (A/AC.254/4/Rev.6)“Article 20“Collection and exchange of information on the nature of organized crime“1. States Parties shall consider developing and sharing analytical expertiseconcerning organized criminal activities with each other and through interregional andregional organizations, including the International Criminal Police Organization. Forthis purpose, common definitions, standards and methodologies should be developedand applied as appropriate.“2. Each State Party shall consider analysing, in consultation with the scientificand academic communities, trends in organized crime in its territory, the circumstancesin which organized crime operates, as well as the professional groups andtechnologies involved.“3. Each State Party shall consider monitoring its policies and actual measuresto combat organized crime and making assessments of their effectiveness and efficiency.”Ninth session: 5-16 June 2000Notes by the Secretariat2. The version of article 20 contained in document A/AC.254/4/Rev.6 remainedunchanged in the intermediate drafts of the convention (A/AC.254/4/Revs.7 and 8).Rolling text (A/AC.254/4/Rev.9 and Corr.1)“Article 20 5“Collection and exchange of information on the nature of organized crime“1. Each State Party shall consider analysing, in consultation with the scientificand academic communities, trends in organized crime in its territory, the circumstancesin which organized crime operates, as well as the professional groups andtechnologies involved.5This article was revised at the informal consultations held during the ninth session of the Ad Hoc Committee andwas recommended by the Chairpersons of the informal consultations to the Ad Hoc Committee for consideration at its tenthsession.