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732 Travaux préparatoires: United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized CrimeRolling text (A/AC.254/4/Add.2/Rev.5)Eighth session: 21 February-3 March 2000“Article 16“Exchange of experience and training“1. States Parties shall cooperate in formulating programmes for the exchangeof experience and training among competent officials and shall provide each otherassistance to facilitate access to equipment or technology proved to be effective inefforts to implement this Protocol.“2. States Parties shall cooperate with each other and with [the InternationalCriminal Police Organization, as well as other] competent international organizations,as appropriate, to ensure that there is adequate training of personnel in their territoriesto prevent, combat and eradicate the illicit manufacturing of and trafficking infirearms, their parts and components and ammunition. 10 The subjects covered in suchtraining shall include, inter alia:“(a) Identification and tracing of firearms, their parts and components andammunition;“(b) Gathering of intelligence, especially concerning the identification of personsengaged in the illicit manufacturing of and trafficking in firearms, their partsand components and ammunition, the methods of shipment used and the means ofconcealment used; and“(c) Improvement of the efficiency of personnel responsible for searching forand detecting, at conventional and non-conventional points of entry and exit, illicitlytrafficked firearms, their parts and components and ammunition.”Notes by the Secretariat11. At the eleventh session of the Ad Hoc Committee, it was agreed that thisarticle should be deleted in view of the mutatis mutandis application of the correspondingprovision (article 29) of the convention.Establishment of a focal pointNegotiation textsFirst session: 19-29 January 1999United States of America (A/AC.254/5/Add.1 and Corr. 1)“Article [...][proposed new article]“Establishment of a focal point“1. In order to attain the objectives of this Protocol, the States Parties shallestablish a focal point within […] responsible for:10The 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).