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Article 12.Security and control of documentsA. Negotiation textsRolling text (A/AC.254/4/Add.1/Rev.1)Fourth session: 28 June-9 July 1999“Article 12“Control of documents“1. States Parties shall adopt such measures as may be necessary to ensurethat travel or identity documents issued by them are of such quality that they cannotreadily be unlawfully altered, replicated, issued or otherwise misused.“2. Each State Party shall adopt such measures as may be necessary to ensurethe integrity and to control the lawful creation, issuance, verification, use and acceptanceof travel or identity documents issued by or on behalf of the State Party.”Notes by the Secretariat1. The version of article 12 of the protocol contained in documentA/AC.254/4/Add.1/Rev.1 remained unchanged in the intermediate drafts of the protocol(A/AC.254/4/Add.1/Revs.2 and 3).Rolling text (A/AC.254/4/Add.1/Rev.4)Sixth session: 6-17 December 1999“Article 12“Security and 1 control of documents“States Parties shall adopt such measures as may be necessary, in accordancewith available means:1Proposal by France at the sixth session of the Ad Hoc Committee.523