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Part Two. Article 12 413C. Interpretative notesThe interpretative notes on article 12 of the protocol approved by the AdHoc Committee and contained in its report on the work of its first to eleventhsessions (see A/55/383/Add.1, paras. 81 and 82) are as follows:(a) The term “travel documents” includes any type of document requiredfor entering or leaving a State under its domestic law. The term “identity documents”includes any document commonly used to establish the identity of a personin a State under the laws or procedures of that State.(b) The words “falsified or unlawfully altered, replicated or issued” shouldbe interpreted as including not only the creation of false documents, but also thealteration of legitimate documents and the filling in of stolen blank documents.The intention was to include both documents that had been forged and genuinedocuments that had been validly issued but were being used by a person otherthan the lawful holder.