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620 Travaux préparatoires: United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime“(ii) Undergo inward processing 74 or economically relevant processing; or“(iii) Change modalities of transport. 75“Option 2“do not enter the market or domestic consumption.]” 76Rolling text (A/AC.254/4/Add.2/Rev.6)Eleventh session: 2-28 October 2000“For the purposes of this Protocol:“Article 2“Use of terms 77“(a) ‘Ammunition’ shall mean the complete round or its components, includingcartridge cases, primers, propellant powder, bullets or projectiles, that are usedin a firearm, provided that those components are themselves subject to authorizationin the respective State Party;“(b) ‘Firearm’ shall mean: 78“(i) Any portable barrelled weapon that expels, is designed to expel or may bereadily converted to expel a shot, bullet or projectile by the action of an explosive,excluding antique firearms or their replicas. Antique firearms and their replicasshall be defined in accordance with domestic law. In no case, however, shallantique firearms include firearms manufactured after 1899; [and“(ii) Any [other weapon or destructive device such as] an explosive bomb,incendiary bomb or gas bomb, grenade, rocket, rocket launcher, missile, missilesystem or mine]; 79“(c) ‘Illicit manufacturing’ shall mean the manufacturing or assembly offirearms, their parts and components or ammunition:74The working group noted that “inward processing” was a technical term referring to customs clearance procedures.75The working group noted that the words “modalities of transport” referred to ships, aircraft, trucks, trains and so on.76The working group noted that some delegations felt that this language would create excessively broad obligationsfor domestic customs controls.77At the eleventh session of the Ad Hoc Committee, article 2 was finalized, with the exception of subparagraphs (b)(ii), (c) (iii) and (d).78At the eleventh session of the Ad Hoc Committee, subparagraph (b) (i) was finalized, with the following explanatorynote: “The word ‘portable’ in subparagraph (b) (i) was included on the understanding that the intended meaning wasto limit the definition of ‘firearm’ to firearms that could be moved or carried by one person without mechanical or otherassistance.” (See the interpretative note below under section C.)79At the eleventh session, an informal working group established to consider articles 2 and 5 of the draft protocol recommendedthe deletion of subparagraph (b) (ii) and the adoption of a modified version of the Norwegian proposal for article5, paragraph 1 (d), that would require States parties to criminalize importing, exporting or manufacturing portabledestructive devices without a licence or authorization (see A/AC.254/L.268). The group also proposed that the definition ofthe term “destructive devices” should be left to domestic law, with a note to be included in the travaux préparatoires describingsuch devices. The Islamic Republic of Iran proposed to delete all references to destructive devices, while encouragingStates parties to criminalize illicit trafficking in such devices or to apply other provisions of the protocol to them using otheragreements between interested States (see A/AC.254/L.273). On the final day of the eleventh session, the Chairman proposeda number of changes to address all of the major issues that remained unresolved (see A/AC.254/4/Add.2/Rev.6, annex).His proposals included the deletion from the draft protocol of all references to destructive devices.