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Part Three. Deleted articles 577ApplicationRolling text (A/AC.254/4/Add.1/Rev.3)Negotiation textsSixth session: 6-17 December 1999“Article 7 quater 3“Application“States Parties shall consider entering into bilateral or regional agreements tofacilitate cooperation in applying appropriate, efficient and effective measures to preventand suppress the smuggling of migrants by sea. 4 States Parties shall also encouragethe conclusion of operational arrangements in relation to specific cases (ad hocarrangements).” 5Notes by the Secretariat5. Based on recommendations made during the informal consultations held from 13to 15 June 2000 in the context of the ninth session of the Ad Hoc Committee, article 7quater was deleted and article 8, paragraph 2, of the draft protocol was amended accordingly(see article 17 of the present protocol).ImplementationAustria and Italy (A/AC.254/4/Add.1)Negotiation textsFirst session: 19-29 January 1999“Article Q“1. For the purpose of examining the progress made by States Parties in achievingthe implementation of the obligations undertaken in the present Protocol, StatesParties shall provide periodic reports to the United Nations Commission on CrimePrevention and Criminal Justice.3This article was included in the previous versions of the draft protocol (A/AC.254/4/Add.1/Revs.1 and 2) as paragraph14 of article 7 (Measures against the smuggling of migrants by sea). For the sake of clarity, Austria and Italy proposeda new structure of chapter II of the draft protocol, according to which new articles 7 bis, 7 ter and 7 quater werealso included in chapter II.4The language of this provision was derived from article 17, paragraph 9, of the United Nations Convention againstIllicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances of 1988 (United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1582, No. 27627)and from paragraph 9 of the interim measures for combating unsafe practices associated with the trafficking or transport ofmigrants by sea (the interim measures), approved in December 1998 by the Maritime Safety Committee of the InternationalMaritime Organization (MSC/Circ.896, annex, and also reproduced in document A/AC.254/CRP.3).5The language of this provision was derived from paragraph 10 of the interim measures.