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686 Travaux préparatoires: United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime“(a) Organized criminal groups known to take part or suspected of taking partin the illicit manufacturing of or trafficking in firearms, their parts and componentsand ammunition;“(b) The means of concealment used in the illicit manufacturing of or traffickingin firearms, their parts and components and ammunition and ways of detectingthem;“(c) Methods and means, points of dispatch and destination and routes customarilyused by organized criminal groups engaged in illicit trafficking in firearms, theirparts and components and ammunition; and“(d) Legislative experiences and practices and measures to prevent, combat anderadicate the illicit manufacturing of and trafficking in firearms, their parts and componentsand ammunition.“3. States Parties shall provide to or share with each other, as appropriate, relevantscientific and technological information useful to law enforcement authoritiesin order to enhance each other’s abilities to prevent, detect and investigate the illicitmanufacturing of and trafficking in firearms, their parts and components and ammunitionand to prosecute the persons involved in those illicit activities.“4. States Parties shall cooperate in the tracing of firearms, their parts andcomponents and ammunition that may have been illicitly manufactured or trafficked.Such cooperation shall include the provision of prompt responses to requests for assistancein tracing such firearms, their parts and components and ammunition, withinavailable means.“5. Subject to the basic concepts of its legal system or any international agreements,each State Party shall guarantee the confidentiality of and comply with anyrestrictions on the use of information that it receives from another State Party pursuantto this article, including proprietary information pertaining to commercial transactions,if requested to do so by the State Party providing the information. If suchconfidentiality cannot be maintained, the State Party that provided the informationshall be notified prior to its disclosure.” 12Notes by the Secretariat2. At its eleventh session, the Ad Hoc Committee considered and finalized article14 of the draft protocol without further amendment. It was placed together with articles 8to 12 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 (seeA/AC.254/4/Add.2/Rev.6, annex, para. 1). The article was approved at the twelfth sessionof the Ad Hoc Committee (see the final text of the protocol, as included in the report ofthe Ad Hoc Committee (A/55/383/Add.2, sect. III, draft resolution, annex), that was submittedto the General Assembly for adoption pursuant to resolutions 54/126 of 17 December1999 and 55/25 of 15 November 2000).12Information on the background to the negotiations on this paragraph is provided in note 3 by the Secretariat concerningthe present article, below.