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640 Travaux préparatoires: United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crimeas a result of illicit manufacturing or trafficking fall into the hands of private individualsor businesses through auction [, sale] 4 or other disposal. 5, ] 6“Option 2 7“2. States Parties shall prevent illicitly manufactured and trafficked firearmsand ammunition from falling into the hands of criminals by seizing and destroyingsuch firearms and ammunition unless other disposal [that includes destroying themor rendering them unusable] 8 has been officially authorized and the firearms andammunition have been marked or recorded and their disposal also recorded.”Notes by the Secretariat1. The version of this article contained in document A/AC.254/4/Add.2/Rev.1remained virtually unchanged in the intermediate drafts of the protocol(A/AC.254/4/Add.2/Revs.2-4). The only difference in the text contained in documentA/AC.254/4/Add.2/Rev.4 was the deletion of the word “explosives” throughout the article,following the decision of the Ad Hoc Committee at its seventh session to remove referencesto explosives from the draft protocol after having been informed of a legal opinionprovided by the Office of Legal Affairs of the Secretariat regarding the interpretation ofGeneral Assembly resolution 54/127 of 17 December 1999 (see A/AC.254/25, para. 22;see also note 2 by the Secretariat concerning article 3 of the present protocol).Rolling text (A/AC.254/4/Add.2/Rev.5)Eighth session: 21 February-3 March 2000“Article 7“Confiscation or forfeiture“1. States Parties shall undertake to confiscate or [forfeit] firearms, their partsand components 9 and ammunition that have been illicitly manufactured or trafficked,in accordance with article 7 of the Convention.“Option 1“[2. States Parties shall adopt the necessary measures to ensure that no firearms,their parts and components and ammunition seized, confiscated or forfeited as a result4It was noted by the Syrian Arab Republic that domestic legislation should determine how the sale of confiscatedfirearms was regulated (see A/AC.254/L.67).5It was suggested by South Africa that the destruction of unauthorized weapons should also be included in this provision.The Russian Federation and Senegal suggested that those confiscated firearms disposed of in a controlled fashionshould not necessarily be destroyed.6The Chairman suggested placing this paragraph in square brackets because of the conflicts with the domestic lawsof some States.7Alternative proposed by Germany and the Republic of Korea, taken from the action plan recommended by the SeniorExperts Group on Transnational Organized Crime.8Proposal made by South Africa (see A/AC.254/5/Add.5).9The words “other related materials” were replaced by the words “parts and components” throughout the text of thedraft protocol, as agreed at the informal consultations held during the eighth session of the Ad Hoc Committee (seeA/AC.254/L.174, para. 4).