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572 Travaux préparatoires: United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime3. The version of article 21 contained in document A/AC.254/4/Add.1/Rev.4remained unchanged in the intermediate draft of the protocol (A/AC.254/4/Add.1/Rev.5).Rolling text (A/AC.254/4/Add.1/Rev.6)Eleventh session: 2-28 October 2000“Article 21“Denunciation“1. A State Party may denounce this Protocol by written notification to theSecretary-General of the United Nations. Such denunciation shall become effectiveone year after the date of receipt of the notification by the Secretary-General.“2. A regional economic integration organization shall cease to be a Party tothis Protocol when all of its member States have denounced it.”Notes by the Secretariat4. Following its approval, at its tenth session, of the text of the convention againsttransnational organized crime, and in particular its corresponding provision on denunciation,the Ad Hoc Committee considered, finalized and approved article 21 of the presentprotocol at its eleventh session without further amendment. (See the final text of the protocol,as included in the report of the Ad Hoc Committee (A/55/383, sect. IV, draft resolution,annex III), that was submitted to the General Assembly for adoption pursuant toresolution 54/126 of 17 December 1999.)B. Approved text adopted by the General Assembly(see resolution 55/25, annex III)Article 24Denunciation1. A State Party may denounce this Protocol by written notification tothe Secretary-General of the United Nations. Such denunciation shall becomeeffective one year after the date of receipt of the notification by the Secretary-General.2. A regional economic integration organization shall cease to be a Partyto this Protocol when all of its member States have denounced it.