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Part Four. Deleted articles 729Canada (A/AC.254/4/Add.2)JurisdictionNegotiation textsFirst session: 19-29 January 1999“Article VI“Jurisdiction“Each State Party shall adopt such measures as may be necessary to establishits jurisdiction, in accordance with article 9 of the Convention, over the offences thatit has established pursuant to this Protocol.”Rolling text (A/AC.254/4/Add.2/Rev.1)“Option 1“Article VI“Jurisdiction 4“Each State Party shall adopt such measures as may be necessary [within its ownnational legislation] 5 to establish its jurisdiction, in accordance with article 9 of theConvention, over the offences that it has established pursuant to this Protocol.“Option 2 6“1. Each State Party shall adopt such measures as may be necessary to establishits jurisdiction over the offences that it has established in accordance with thisProtocol when the offence in question is committed in its territory.“2. Each State Party may adopt such measures as may be necessary to establishits jurisdiction over the offences that it has established in accordance with thisConvention when the offence is committed by one of its nationals or by a personwho habitually resides in its territory.“3. Each State Party shall adopt such measures as may be necessary to establishits jurisdiction over the offences that it has established in accordance with thisConvention when the alleged criminal is present in its territory and it does not extraditesuch person to another country on the basis of the nationality of the allegedoffender.“4. This Protocol does not preclude the application of any other rule ofcriminal jurisdiction established by a State Party under its domestic law.”4It was considered that, depending on the final draft of the convention, this provision might not be necessary or mightrequire modification.5Addition proposed by Ecuador.6Alternative proposed by Mexico (see A/AC.254/5/Add.1 and Corr.1). The United Kingdom of Great Britain andNorthern Ireland also suggested that this provision could be extended to include a provision allowing States parties to maintainjurisdiction over their nationals who had committed no offence in their home country but had engaged in illicit armstrafficking abroad (see A/AC.254/5/Add.1 and Corr.1).