Background information
Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of a Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
By resolution 53/111, of 9 December 1998, the General Assembly established an Ad Hoc Comittee open to all States, for the purpose of elaborating the international convention against transnational organized crime and three additional international legal protocols. The first session of the Ad Hoc Committee took place in Vienna, Austria, from 19-29 January 1999.
- First session (Vienna, 19 - 29 January 1999)
- Second session (Vienna, 8 - 12 March 1999)
- Third session (Vienna, 28 April - 3 May 1999)
- Fourth session (Vienna, 28 June - 9 July 1999)
- Fifth session (Vienna, 4 - 15 October 1999)
- Sixth session (Vienna, 6 - 17 December 1999)
- Seventh session (Vienna, 17 - 28 January 2000)
- Eighth session (Vienna, 21 February - 3 March 2000)
- Ninth session (Vienna, 5 - 16 June 2000)
- Tenth session (Vienna, 17 - 28 July 2000)
- Eleventh session (Vienna, 2 - 27 October 2000)
- Twelfth session (Vienna, 26 February - 2 March 2001)
- Thirteenth session (Vienna, 26 January - 6 February 2004)
- General Assembly documents (A/55/383 & Add.1, Add.2, Add.3)