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Article 6.Confiscation, seizure and disposalA. Negotiation textsCanada (A/AC.254/4/Add.2)First session: 19-29 January 1999“Article VII“Confiscation or forfeiture“1. States Parties shall undertake to confiscate or forfeit firearms, ammunitionand other related materials that have been illicitly manufactured or trafficked, in accordancewith article 7 of the Convention.“2. States Parties shall adopt the necessary measures to ensure that all firearms,ammunition and other related materials seized, confiscated or forfeited as a result ofillicit manufacturing or trafficking do not fall into the hands of private individuals orbusinesses through auction, sale or other disposal.”Rolling text (A/AC.254/4/Add.2/Rev.1)“Article VII“Confiscation or forfeiture 1“1. States Parties shall undertake to confiscate or [forfeit] 2 firearms, ammunition[,explosives] 3 and other related materials that have been illicitly manufactured ortrafficked, in accordance with article 7 of the Convention.“Option 1“[2. States Parties shall adopt the necessary measures to ensure that no firearms,ammunition[, explosives] 3 and other related materials seized, confiscated or forfeited1It was considered that the final form of this article would be influenced by the general provision on confiscation andforfeiture in the convention. If that provision proved inapplicable or insufficient in respect of the particular needs of thesubject matter of this protocol, the article would require further elaboration.2Replacement of the word “forfeit” with the words “require forfeit of” was suggested by the United Kingdom of GreatBritain and Northern Ireland. A similar proposal was submitted at the eighth session of the Ad Hoc Committee by Canada(see A/AC.254/L.157).3Addition proposed by Mexico (see A/AC.254/5/Add.1 and Corr.1).639