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412 Travaux préparatoires: United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crimeare of such quality that they cannot be easily misused and cannot readily be unlawfullyaltered, replicated [,falsified] or issued.“2. States Parties shall adopt such measures as may be necessary to ensure theintegrity and to control the lawful creation, issuance, verification, use and recognitionof travel or identity documents issued by or on behalf of the States Parties.”Notes by the Secretariat3. At its sixth session, the Ad Hoc Committee discussed article 9 of the draft traffickingin persons protocol and decided to reorganize and amend the text of this provisiontaking into account the parallel discussions on article 12 of the draft migrants protocol.For that purpose, it was agreed that changes to the latter provision (see A/AC.254/L.128/Add.2) should be incorporated into article 9 for purposes of further discussion. Consequently,the amended paragraph 2 of article 9 of the draft trafficking in persons protocol,in particular, reflected the revisions to the text of article 12, paragraph 2 of the draftmigrants protocol that had been incorporated into the text of that protocol pursuant to theinstruction of the Chairperson, as a result of the work of an informal working group thatmet at the sixth session of the Ad Hoc Committee (see also footnote 4 concerning article 12of the migrants protocol in part three). In view of the above, the reorganized text ofarticle 9 of the draft trafficking in persons protocol read as follows:“States Parties shall adopt such measures as may be necessary, in accordance withavailable means:“(a) To ensure that travel or identity documents issued by them are of such qualitythat they cannot be easily misused and cannot readily be unlawfully altered, replicated,falsified or issued; and“(b) To ensure the integrity and security of travel or identity documents issued byor on behalf of the States Parties and to prevent their unlawful creation, issuance and use.”4. At its eleventh session, the Ad Hoc Committee considered, finalized andapproved article 9, as amended. The last amendments are reflected in the final text of theprotocol, as included in the report of the Ad Hoc Committee (A/55/383, sect. IV, draftresolution, annex II), that was submitted to the General Assembly for adoption pursuantto resolution 54/126 of 17 December 1999.B. Approved text adopted by the General Assembly(see resolution 55/25, annex II)Article 12Security and control of documentsEach State Party shall take such measures as may be necessary, within availablemeans:(a) To ensure that travel or identity documents issued by it are of suchquality that they cannot easily be misused and cannot readily be falsified or unlawfullyaltered, replicated or issued; and(b) To ensure the integrity and security of travel or identity documentsissued by or on behalf of the State Party and to prevent their unlawful creation,issuance and use.