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638 Travaux préparatoires: United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized CrimeNotes by the Secretariat4. At its twelfth session, the Ad Hoc Committee finalized and approved article 5 ofthe draft protocol, as amended. Paragraph 1 (c) was deleted. The last amendments arereflected in the final text of the protocol, as included in the report of the Ad Hoc Committee(A/55/383/Add.2, sect. III, draft resolution, annex), that was submitted to the GeneralAssembly for adoption pursuant to resolutions 54/126 of 17 December 1999 and 55/25 of15 November 2000.B. Approved text adopted by the General Assembly(see resolution 55/255, annex)Article 5Criminalization1. Each State Party shall adopt such legislative and other measures asmay be necessary to establish as criminal offences the following conduct, whencommitted intentionally:(a) Illicit manufacturing of firearms, their parts and components andammunition;(b) Illicit trafficking in firearms, their parts and components and ammunition;(c) Falsifying or illicitly obliterating, removing or altering the marking(s)on firearms required by article 8 of this Protocol.2. Each State Party shall also adopt such legislative and other measuresas may be necessary to establish as criminal offences the following conduct:(a) Subject to the basic concepts of its legal system, attempting to commitor participating as an accomplice in an offence established in accordance withparagraph 1 of this article; and(b) Organizing, directing, aiding, abetting, facilitating or counselling thecommission of an offence established in accordance with paragraph 1 of this article.C. Interpretative notesThe interpretative notes on article 5 of the protocol approved by the Ad HocCommittee and contained in its report on the work of its twelfth session (seeA/55/383/Add.3, paras. 5 and 6) are as follows:Paragraph 2(a) The “other measures” mentioned here are additional to legislativemeasures and presuppose the existence of a law.(b) References to attempting to commit the offences established underdomestic law in accordance with this paragraph are understood in some countriesto include both acts perpetrated in preparation for a criminal offence and thosecarried out in an unsuccessful attempt to commit the offence, where those actsare also culpable or punishable under domestic law.