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494 Travaux préparatoires: United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized CrimeC. Interpretative notesThe interpretative notes on chapter II and article 7 of the protocol approvedby the Ad Hoc Committee and contained in its report on the work of its first toeleventh sessions (see A/55/383/Add.1, paras. 98 and 99) are as follows:Chapter II. Smuggling of migrants by sea(a) It is understood that the measures set forth in chapter II of the protocolcannot be taken in the territorial sea of another State except with the permissionor authorization of the coastal State concerned. This principle is wellestablished in the law of the sea and did not need to be restated in the protocol.The international law of the sea includes the United Nations Convention on theLaw of the Sea 7 as well as other relevant international instruments. References tothe United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea do not prejudice or affectin any way the position of any State in relation to that Convention.Article 7: Cooperation(b) This protocol is without prejudice to the existing rights, obligations orresponsibilities of States parties under other international instruments, such as thosereferred to in this article. Rights, obligations and responsibilities under anotherinstrument are determined by the terms of that instrument and whether the Stateconcerned is a party to it, not by this protocol. Therefore, any State that becomesa party to this protocol but is not a party to another international instrumentreferred to in the protocol would not become subject to any right, obligation orresponsibility under that other instrument.