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Article 12.Security and control of documentsA. Negotiation textsSecond session: 8-12 March 1999Argentina and United States of America (A/AC.254/4/Add.3/Rev.1)“Article 10 1“Security of travel documents“1. States Parties shall adopt such measures as may be necessary to ensurethat travel or identity documents issued by them are of such quality that they cannotreadily be unlawfully altered, replicated, issued or otherwise misused.“2. Each State Party shall adopt such measures as may be necessary to ensurethe integrity and to control the lawful creation, issuance, verification, use and acceptanceof travel or identity documents issued by or on behalf of the State Party.”Notes by the Secretariat1. The title of this article, “Security of travel documents”, was changed to“International travel documents” by consensus at the fourth session of the Ad HocCommittee, so as not to cause confusion for States that may have internal travel or identitydocuments that are not intended to be regulated by this protocol.2. The version of this article contained in document A/AC.254/4/Add.3/Rev.1 remainedunchanged in the intermediate drafts of the protocol (A/AC.254/4/Add.3/Revs.2-4).Rolling text (A/AC.254/4/Add.3/Rev.5)Sixth session: 6-17 December 1999“Article 9“International travel documents“1. States Parties shall adopt such measures as may be necessary, in accordancewith available means to ensure that travel or identity documents issued by them1Australia and Canada suggested that several articles in this protocol should be based on articles contained in the proposalsof the United States and Canada regarding the draft migrants protocol (A/AC.254/4/Add.1/Rev.1). One of the articlesthus adapted was the present one.411