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506 Travaux préparatoires: United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized CrimeC. Interpretative noteThe interpretative note on article 8 of the protocol approved by the Ad HocCommittee and contained in its report on the work of its first to eleventh sessions(see A/55/383/Add.1, para. 100) is as follows:The word “engaged” in paragraphs 1, 2 and 7 of this article and in paragraph1 of article 10 should be understood broadly as including vessels “engaged”both directly and indirectly in the smuggling of migrants. Of particular concernwas the inclusion of both vessels actually found to be carrying smuggled migrantsand vessels (“mother ships”) that transport smuggled migrants on open ocean voyagesbut are sometimes not apprehended until after the migrants have been transferredto smaller local vessels for landing purposes.Notes by the Secretariat6. The interpretative note on chapter II (Smuggling of migrants by sea) of the protocolapproved by the Ad Hoc Committee and contained in its report on the work of itsfirst to eleventh sessions (see A/55/383/Add.1, para. 98), also applies to article 8 (see theinterpretative notes concerning article 7 of the present protocol).