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Article 6.CriminalizationA. Negotiation textsAustria and Italy (A/AC.254/4/Add.1)First session: 19-29 January 1999“Chapter I.General provisions“Article A“Any person who intentionally procures, for his or her profit, repeatedly and inan organized manner, the illegal entry of a person into another State of which thelatter person is not a national or not a permanent resident commits the offence of‘illegal trafficking and transport of migrants’ within the meaning of this Protocol.“Article B“1. Any person who attempts to commit or who commits an act constitutingparticipation as an accomplice in any such trafficking and transport, in an attempt tocommit such trafficking and transport or in organizing or ordering others to commitsuch trafficking and transport likewise commits an offence within the meaning of thisProtocol.“...”Rolling text (A/AC.254/4/Add.1/Rev.1)Fourth session: 28 June-9 July 1999“Article 4“Criminalization“1. States Parties that have not yet done so shall adopt the necessary legislationor other measures to establish as a criminal offence the smuggling of migrants 11One delegation suggested that not only individuals but also legal entities (legal persons) should be covered becauseof the potential involvement of travel companies or corporations.477