"UN: Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, 2000" [2005] ELECD 331; in Tully, Stephen (ed), "International Documents on Corporate Responsibility" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005)

Book Title: International Documents on Corporate Responsibility

Editor(s): Tully, Stephen

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781843768197

Section: Chapter 108

Section Title: UN: Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, 2000

Number of pages: 7

Extract:

108. UN: Convention against Transnational
Organized Crime, 2000

Commentary: The Convention (40 ILM 335 (2001), entry into force 2003) facili-
tates the investigation, prosecution and punishment of crimes committed by organ-
ised criminal groups where either the crime or the group has a transnational element.
Article 12 allows the confiscation and seizure of criminal proceeds or property and
Article 14 for its subsequent disposal. See further, Ad Hoc Committee on the
Elaboration of a Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (2000), `Report
on the work of its first to eleventh sessions and the interpretative notes for the offi-
cial records (travaux préparatoires) of the negotiation of the Convention against
Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols', UN Doc A/55/383/Add.1. Related
supplementary instruments concluded under Article 37 include the Protocol to
Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children
(extracted above), the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Air and
Sea (UN Doc A/55/383 (2000), entry into force 2004) and the Protocol against the
Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and
Ammunition (extracted above). See also, www.unodc.org.




Article 1: Statement of purpose
The purpose of this Convention is to promote cooperation to prevent and combat transna-
tional organized crime more effectively.


Article 2: Use of terms
For the purposes of this Convention:

(a) `Organized criminal group' shall mean a structured group of three or more persons,
existing for a period of time and acting ...