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Article 31.PreventionRolling text (A/AC.254/4)A. Negotiation textsFirst session: 19-29 January 1999“Article 22“Prevention 1, 2“1. States Parties shall consider taking steps to reduce to the extent possibleexisting social, legal, administrative or technical opportunities for criminal organizationsto commit profitable crimes and to alleviate the circumstances that make sociallymarginalized groups vulnerable to the prospect of a criminal career.“2. States Parties shall consider setting up or supporting technical cooperationprogrammes aimed at the prevention of organized crime by social, legal or technicalmeans and shall encourage international funding agencies to promote such programmes.“3. States Parties shall consider collecting and exchanging information withrespect to registered legal persons and the physical persons involved in their creation,direction and funding, with a view to preventing the penetration of organized crimein the public and legitimate private sector.“4. States Parties shall consider reviewing their national legislation in order toensure that it provides for the opportunity to exclude from participation in tender proceduresconducted by the State applicants who have committed offences connectedwith organized crime or whose funds have been illegally acquired.“5. States Parties undertake that their organs and services, in particular theirsecurity services, will under no circumstances cooperate with criminal organizationsin any way other than using individual informers in the fight against the crimes inwhich such organizations engage.”Rolling text (A/AC.254/4/Rev.1)“Article 22 3“Prevention at the national level“1. With a view to reducing existing or future opportunities for criminal organizationsto participate in legal markets while acquiring illegal gains through activities1At the informal preparatory meeting held in Buenos Aires in 1998, this draft article was not discussed. However,there was widespread acceptance of the principle that the convention should include provisions on prevention.2At the first session of the Ad Hoc Committee, the Netherlands undertook to provide a new text for this article.3Proposed by the Netherlands at the first session of the Ad Hoc Committee (see A/AC.254/L.3).261