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58 Travaux préparatoires: United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime“2. For purposes of implementing or applying paragraph 1 of this article:“(a) States Parties shall seek to apply paragraph 1 to the widest range of predicateoffences;“(b) States Parties shall include as predicate offences:“(i) [All serious crimes] [All serious crimes involving an organizedcriminal group and the offences established in articles 3, 4 ter and 17 bisof this Convention]; 40 or“(ii) If all serious crimes are not included, at a minimum, a comprehensiverange of serious offences, including all offences associated withorganized criminal groups and all offences that generate significant proceeds;“(c) States Parties implementing subparagraph (b) (ii) above shall furnish copiesor a description of their laws to the Secretary-General of the United Nations;“(d) [Still to be addressed in the issue of foreign predicate offences; see thecurrent text of paragraph 2 (a)];“(e) If required by the basic principles of a State Party’s penal law, then it maybe provided that the offences set forth in paragraph 1 of this article do not apply tothe persons who committed the predicate offence;“(f) Knowledge, intent or purpose required as an element of an offence set forthin that paragraph may be inferred from objective factual circumstances.” 41Mexico (A/AC.254/L.161)Mexico proposed to replace the text of paragraph 2 (b) of article 4 contained in documentA/AC.254/L.149 with the following:“(b) States Parties shall include as predicate offences all serious crimes asdefined in article 2 and the offences established in articles 3, 4 ter and 17 bis of thisConvention. In the case of States Parties whose legislation sets out a list of specificpredicate offences, these shall, at a minimum, include a comprehensive range ofoffences associated with organized criminal groups;”Finland (A/AC.254/L.162)Finland proposed to amend paragraphs 2 (a) to (d) of article 4 as they appeared in documentA/AC.254/L.149 to read as follows.“2. For purposes of implementing or applying paragraph 1 of this article:“(a) States Parties shall seek to apply paragraph 1 to the widest range of predicateoffences;“(b) States Parties shall include as predicate offences all serious crimes [asdefined in articles 2 and 2 bis] and the offences established in articles 3, 4 ter and40Depending on the outcome of discussions on article 2, the latter bracketed words might be replaced with the words“crimes covered by this convention”.41Current text of paragraph 2 (b).