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682 Travaux préparatoires: United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized CrimeThird session: 28 April-3 May 1999Rolling text (A/AC.254/4/Add.2/Rev.1)Option 1“Article XIV“Exchange of information 1“1. Without prejudice to articles 19 and 20 of the Convention, States Partiesshall exchange among themselves, in conformity with their respective domestic lawsand treaties applicable to them, relevant information on matters such as:“(a) Authorized producers, dealers, importers, exporters and, whenever possible,carriers of firearms, ammunition[, explosives] 2 and other related materials;“(b) The means of concealment used in the illicit manufacturing of or traffickingin firearms, ammunition[, explosives] 2 and other related materials; and ways ofdetecting them;“(c) Routes customarily used by criminal organizations engaged in illicit traffickingin firearms, ammunition[, explosives] 2 and other related materials;“(d) Legislative experiences, practices and measures related to preventing, combatingand eradicating the illicit manufacturing of and trafficking in firearms, ammunition[,explosives] 2 and other related materials; and“(e) Techniques, practices and legislation developed to combat money-launderingrelated to the illicit manufacturing of and trafficking in firearms, ammunition[,explosives] 2 and other related materials.“Option 2 3“1. States Parties shall exchange among themselves and with the InternationalCriminal Police Organization information concerning firearms, ammunition and otherrelated materials relevant to this Protocol, in conformity with their respective domesticlaws and applicable treaties, on matters such as:“[...]“Option 1“2. States Parties shall provide to or share with each other, as appropriate, relevantscientific and technological information useful to law enforcement authorities,in order to enhance one another’s ability to prevent, detect and investigate the illicitmanufacturing of and trafficking in firearms, ammunition[, explosives] 2 and otherrelated materials and prosecute the persons involved in those illicit activities.1Although the convention was likely to include a general provision on the exchange of information, a provision dealingwith that issue in the firearms protocol was recommended. The final form of this provision would need to take intoaccount the corresponding article(s) in the convention. At the seventh session of the Ad Hoc Committee, it was agreed thatit was necessary for the protocol to deal with exchange of information in the context of illicit firearm trafficking morespecifically than in the corresponding articles of the convention. Many delegations also expressed the view that the textcould not be finalized until the text of the convention had been negotiated.2Addition proposed by Mexico (see A/AC.254/5/Add.1 and Corr.1).3Alternative proposed by Colombia.