Strengthening International Cooperation in Combating Transnational Organized Crime in All Its Forms and Manifestations

E/RES/2012/19View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Economic and Social Council, under agenda item 14c Crime prevention and criminal justice, published in 2012.

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1 entity

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Programme 13	International drug control, crime and terrorism prevention and criminal justice	377

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Who cites this mandate in the budget?

1 entity

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Programme 13	International drug control, crime and terrorism prevention and criminal justice	377	—

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

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4 subjects

Crime Prevention Criminal Justice Organized Crime Transnational Crime

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17 operative paragraphs

Reiterates its call upon those Member States that have not yet done so to consider ratifying or acceding to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto,Error: Reference source not found and encourages States parties to fully implement those legal instruments;

Recalls resolution 5/5 of 22 October 2010 of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime,¹⁰ in which the Conference decided to establish an open-ended intergovernmental working group to consider and explore options for the establishment of a mechanism or mechanisms to assist the Conference in the review of the implementation of the Convention and the Protocols thereto, notes with appreciation the progress made by the working group in finalizing its recommendations to the Conference, and expresses the hope that the Conference, at its sixth session, will complete the task of establishing the review mechanism and launching it as soon as possible, bearing in mind the urgent need to improve the implementation of the Convention and the Protocols thereto;

¹⁰See CTOC/COP/2010/17, chap. I, sect. A.

Requests the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, as the Co-Chair of the United Nations system task force on transnational organized crime and drug trafficking as threats to security and stability, to keep Member States informed on the progress of the work of the task force;

Invites the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to request Member States and interested international organizations, including regional organizations, to submit to the Office their views on ways and means of enhancing the effectiveness of international cooperation in countering criminal and terrorist threats and challenges to the tourism sector, including by means of public-private partnerships, and requests the Office to report on those submissions to the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice at its twenty-second session;

Invites Member States, within the framework of their national legal systems and international obligations, to consider reviewing their legal and regulatory arrangements in order to provide for the criminalization of the production and distribution of falsified and fraudulent products linked to organized crime;

Also invites Member States to consider, where appropriate, applying the relevant provisions of the Convention to the activities of transnational organized criminal groups, including those involving the illicit manufacture, production and distribution of falsified and fraudulent products, especially in relation to money-laundering, corruption and smuggling, as well as seizing and confiscating the related criminal assets and cooperating by means of extradition and mutual legal assistance as well as coordinated law enforcement actions, and invites Member States also to consider enhancing their cross-border cooperation in this area, including with a view to breaking the related criminal distribution chain;

Encourages Member States to provide adequate mechanisms to ensure proper safety and control of the licit distribution chain, with the involvement and close cooperation of the private sector, where appropriate;

Urges Member States to consider, among other effective measures, within the framework of their national legal systems, criminalizing activities related to all forms and aspects of trafficking in cultural property and related offences by using a broad definition that can be applied to all stolen, looted, unlawfully excavated and illicitly exported or imported cultural property, and to apply the relevant provisions of the Convention to foster international cooperation in order to address such criminal activities, including by applying judicial and law enforcement cooperation mechanisms at their disposal;

Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Secretary-General on crime prevention and criminal justice responses to protect cultural property, especially with regard to its trafficking,¹¹ including the recommendations contained therein, and looks forward to the continued work of the expert group established by the Economic and Social Council to address crime prevention and criminal justice responses to protect cultural property;

¹¹E/CN.15/2012/15.

Urges Member States to consider, among other effective measures, in accordance with their national legal systems, addressing different forms and manifestations of transnational organized crime that have a significant impact on the environment, including trafficking in endangered species of wild fauna and flora;

Reiterates the invitation to Member States and other donors to provide extrabudgetary resources, in accordance with the rules and regulations of the United Nations, to implement Commission resolution 20/7 of 15 April 2011,Error: Reference source not found including for the convening of the second session of the open-ended intergovernmental expert group to conduct a comprehensive study of the problem of cybercrime;

Requests the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to continue, in consultation with Member States and relevant regional and international organizations, developing global analyses of the threats and modalities of transnational organized crime, studying new forms and dimensions of transnational organized crime and analysing new and emerging challenges, in order to support evidence-based policy guidance;

Invites the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute and other institutes of the United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice programme network to continue to conduct, in consultation with Member States and in cooperation with other competent international entities, research on different forms of transnational organized crime;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue his efforts towards enhancing the analytical contributions of the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute and other institutes of the United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice programme network, as well as their transparency to Member States, including by means of strengthening their working links with the Commission;

Requests the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to continue developing, in consultation with Member States and relevant regional and international organizations, technical assistance tools that may be used to support the implementation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto, the United Nations Convention against CorruptionError: Reference source not found and other relevant United Nations instruments;

Invites States and other donors to provide extrabudgetary resources for the purposes described above, in accordance with the rules and procedures of the United Nations;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the Commission at its twenty-second session a report on the implementation of the present resolution.

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