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28 Travaux préparatoires: United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime“(b) Of the offences established in articles 4, 4 ter and 17 bis, where involvingan organized criminal group; and“(c) Of the offence established in article 3.”Notes by the Secretariat3. At its seventh session, the Ad Hoc Committee provisionally approved paragraphs3 and 4 of article 2, as amended. However, the Ad Hoc Committee decided to keep paragraphs1 and 2 of article 2 under review and to revert to the text in the light of the resultsof future negotiations on other articles of the draft convention that might have a bearingon the scope of the instrument. The Ad Hoc Committee also decided to use as a basis forfurther consideration of those paragraphs the text proposed by the representative of theNetherlands, in her capacity as the coordinator of an informal working group set up to discussparagraphs 1 and 2 of article 2 at the request of the Chairman of the Ad HocCommittee. That text was as follows:Recommendations of the open-ended informal working group on article 2, paragraphs1 and 2, submitted at the request of the Chairman (A/AC.254/L.140)“Article 2“Scope of application“1. The Convention shall apply, except as otherwise stated therein, to the prevention,investigation and prosecution of:“(a)The offences established in accordance with articles 3, 4, 4 ter and 17 bis; 27 and“(b) Serious offences involving an organized criminal group as defined inarticle 2 bis.“2. The Convention shall not apply, except as otherwise provided therein, 28where such an offence is committed within a single State, all participants of the organizedcriminal group or, where no such group is involved, all alleged offenders arenationals of that State and are present in that State, and no State has a basis underarticle 9, paragraphs 1 and 2, 29 to exercise jurisdiction.”27On the understanding that:(a) In article 4 ter, paragraph 1, and in the chapeau of article 17 bis, the words “[and involving an organizedcriminal group]” will be deleted;(b) In the articles on cooperation, in particular articles 10 (Extradition) and 14 (Mutual legal assistance), it willbe stated that the obligation to apply the articles exists when the offences as referred to in article 2, paragraph 1, are committedinvolving an organized criminal group; and(c) Furthermore, in the articles on cooperation, it will be stated that States may apply them even where thereis no involvement of a criminal group.28It could be advisable to try to have a more explicit text that specifies which of the provisions of the convention canapply to “domestic cases”.29Article 9, paragraph 1 (a) and (b), on territorial jurisdiction; and paragraph 2 (a), on the nationality or residency ofthe victim, (b), on the nationality or residency of the offender and (c), concerning an offence with a view to an offencewithin the territory.