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32 Travaux préparatoires: United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized CrimeB. Approved text adopted by the General Assembly(see resolution 55/25, annex I)Article 3Scope of application1. This Convention shall apply, except as otherwise stated herein, to theprevention, investigation and prosecution of:(a) The offences established in accordance with articles 5, 6, 8 and 23 ofthis Convention; and(b) Serious crime as defined in article 2 of this Convention;where the offence is transnational in nature and involves an organized criminalgroup.2. For the purpose of paragraph 1 of this article, an offence is transnationalin nature if:(a) It is committed in more than one State;(b) It is committed in one State but a substantial part of its preparation,planning, direction or control takes place in another State;(c) It is committed in one State but involves an organized criminal groupthat engages in criminal activities in more than one State; or(d) It is committed in one State but has substantial effects in another State.C. Interpretative notesThe interpretative notes on article 3 of the convention approved by the AdHoc Committee and contained in its report on the work of its first to eleventhsessions (see A/55/383/Add.1, paras. 7 and 8) are as follows:(a) During the negotiations of the convention, the Ad Hoc Committee notedwith deep concern the growing links between transnational organized crime and terroristcrimes, taking into account the Charter of the United Nations and the relevantresolutions of the General Assembly. All States participating in the negotiationsexpressed their determination to deny safe havens to those who engaged in transnationalorganized crime by prosecuting their crimes wherever they occurred and bycooperating at the international level. The Ad Hoc Committee was also stronglyconvinced that the convention would constitute an effective tool and the necessarylegal framework for international cooperation in combating, inter alia, such criminalactivities as money-laundering, corruption, illicit trafficking in endangeredspecies of wild flora and fauna, offences against cultural heritage, and the growinglinks between transnational organized crime and terrorist crimes. Finally, the AdHoc Committee was of the view that the Ad Hoc Committee established by theGeneral Assembly in its resolution 51/210 of 17 December 1996, which was thenbeginning its deliberations with a view to the development of a comprehensive conventionon international terrorism, pursuant to Assembly resolution 54/110 of 9December 1999, should take into consideration the provisions of the convention.Paragraph 2 (d)(b) The term “substantial effects” is intended to cover situations where anoffence has had a substantial consequential adverse effect on another State party,for example where the currency of one State party is counterfeited in another Stateparty and the organized criminal group has put the counterfeit currency into globalcirculation.