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Part Four. Article 8 657Amendments to the proposals made by the Chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee at itseleventh session (A/AC.254/L.281)The Chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee proposed that article 9 should bereplaced with the following text:“Article 9“Marking of firearms“1. For the purpose of identifying and tracing firearms, States Parties shall:“(a) Require, at the time of manufacture of each firearm, appropriate uniquemarking providing the country or place of manufacture, the name of the manufacturerand the serial number;“(b) Require appropriate simple marking on each imported firearm, permittingidentification of the country of import and, where possible, the year of import andenabling the competent authorities of that country to trace the firearm, and a uniquemarking, if the firearm does not bear such a marking;“(c) The requirements of subparagraph (b) of this paragraph need not be appliedto temporary imports of firearms for verifiable lawful purposes;“(d) Ensure, at the time of transfer of a firearm from government stocks to permanentcivilian use, the appropriate unique marking permitting identification by allStates Parties of the transferring country.“2. States Parties shall encourage the firearms manufacturing industry to developmeasures against the removal or alteration of markings.”Notes by the Secretariat6. At its twelfth session, the Ad Hoc Committee considered, finalized and approvedarticle 9 of the draft protocol, as amended. It was placed together with articles 8, 10 to12, 14 and 15 of the draft protocol into one chapter entitled “Prevention”, on the basis ofthe proposals made by the Chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee at the eleventh session(see A/AC.254/4/Add.2/Rev.6, annex, para. 1). The last amendments are reflected in thefinal 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 2000.7. The representatives of Benin and Nigeria requested that the report of the Ad HocCommittee on its twelfth session should indicate their reservations on article 8, becauseof its vagueness regarding the marking of firearms. The representative of Azerbaijanrequested that the report of the Ad Hoc Committee on its twelfth session should indicatethat his Government had reserved its right to make reservations regarding article 8, paragraphs1 (b) and (c), of the draft protocol. The representative of the Syrian Arab Republicrequested that the report of the Ad Hoc Committee on its twelfth session should reflecthis Government’s reservations regarding article 8 of the draft protocol. The representativeof the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya requested that the report of the Ad Hoc Committee on itstwelfth session should reflect his Government’s reservations regarding article 8 of the draftprotocol. The representative of Haiti requested that the report of the Ad Hoc Committeeon its twelfth session should reflect her Government’s preference for a formulation of