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298 Travaux préparatoires: United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime“2. In order to become a Party to a Protocol, a State must also be a Party tothe Convention.“3. A State Party to the Convention is not bound by a Protocol unless itbecomes a Party to the Protocol in accordance with the provisions thereof.“4. Any Protocol by which a State Party is bound shall, for that State Party,form an integral part of this Convention.]”Ninth session: 5-16 June 2000Notes by the Secretariat2. The version of article 26 bis 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 26 bis 3“Relation with Protocols“1. This Convention may be supplemented by one or more Protocols.“2. In order to become a Party to a Protocol, a State must also be a Party tothe Convention.“3. A State Party to the Convention is not bound by a Protocol unless itbecomes a Party to the Protocol in accordance with the provisions thereof.“[4. Any Protocol by which a State Party is bound shall, for that State Party,form an integral part of this Convention.]” 4European Commission (A/AC.254/L.217)Tenth session: 17-28 July 2000Paragraph 2“2. In order to become a Party to a Protocol, a State or a regional economicintegration organization must also be a Party to the Convention.”2This 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.4The Netherlands, while expressing preference for the deletion of the paragraph, proposed the following formulation,if the decision of the Ad Hoc Committee was to retain it: “Any Protocol to the present Convention shall be read and interpretedtogether with the present Convention.”