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60 Travaux préparatoires: United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime“(c) For the purposes of subparagraph (b), predicate offences shall includeoffences committed both within and outside the criminal jurisdiction of the State Partyin question. However, offences committed outside the jurisdiction of a State Partyshall constitute predicate offences, provided that the relevant conduct is a criminaloffence under the law of the State where it is committed and would be a criminaloffence under the law of the State Party implementing or applying this article had itbeen committed there; 43“(d) States Parties shall furnish copies or descriptions of their laws implementingthis article to the Secretary-General of the United Nations;“(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; 44“(f) Knowledge, intent or purpose required as an element of an offence set forthin that paragraph may be inferred from objective factual circumstances.“[Old paragraphs 3 and 3 bis were deleted]“3. Nothing contained in this article shall affect the principle that the descriptionof the offences to which it refers and of legal defences thereto is reserved to thedomestic law of a State Party and that such offences shall be prosecuted and punishedin conformity with that law.”Notes by the Secretariat4. At its eighth session, the Ad Hoc Committee provisionally approved article 4(with the exception of subparagraph (c) of paragraph 2, which remained under review (seeA/AC.254/28, para. 12)). At its tenth session, the Ad Hoc Committee considered, finalizedand approved article 4, as amended. The last amendments are reflected in the finaltext of the convention, as included in the report of the Ad Hoc Committee (A/55/383, sect.IV, draft resolution, annex I), that was submitted to the General Assembly for adoptionpursuant to resolution 54/126 of 17 December 1999.43This subparagraph remained under review. At the eighth session of the Ad Hoc Committee, several delegationsexpressed concern about whether the current formulation of this subparagraph would meet the standards of clarity requiredfor an obligatory provision.44This subparagraph takes into account legal principles of several States where prosecution or punishment of the sameperson for both the predicate offence and the money-laundering offence is not permitted. Those States confirmed that theydid not refuse extradition, mutual legal assistance or cooperation for purposes of confiscation solely because the request wasbased on a money-laundering offence the predicate offence of which was committed by the same person.