In its resolution 9/1, entitled "Establishment of the Mechanism for the Review of the Implementation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto", the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime requested UNODC to convene, within existing resources, at least one meeting of an open-ended intergovernmental expert group for the purpose of finalizing and harmonizing, as necessary, the self-assessment questionnaires and preparing the guidelines for conducting the country reviews and a blueprint for the lists of observations.
The first session of the Open-ended Intergovernmental Expert Group of the Conference of the Parties, established in accordance with resolution 9/1, met from 9 to 11 October 2019 in Vienna, Austria and its outcome is to be submitted to the Conference for its consideration at its tenth session.
The second session of the Open-ended Intergovernmental Expert Group of the Conference of the Parties, established in accordance with resolution 9/1, met from 13 to 15 July 2020.
Please refer to the updated information note for participants and Interprefy guidance below
Information note for participants (English only)
Guidance for participants of meetings during the 2019/2020 COVID-19 outbreak (Status 12 July 2020)
Participants Guide to Interprety meetings (Speaking and listening function)
Participants Guide to Interprety meetings (Listening function)
Proposed organization of work in view of COVID-19 restrictions and hybrid/Chair meeting format
UN Code of Conduct to prevent harassment, including sexual harassment, at UN system events
Annotated provisional agenda
List of Participants
Self-assessment questionnaire for the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto – Cluster I
Self-assessment questionnaire for the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto – Cluster II
Self-assessment questionnaire for the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto – Cluster III
Self-assessment questionnaire for the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto – Cluster IV
Report on the meeting of the intergovernmental expert group established in accordance with Conference resolution 9/1 held in Vienna from 13 to 15 July 2020
Methodology for the harmonization of the self-assessment questionnaires for the review of implementation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto
(Status date 30 March 2020)
Draft harmonized self-assessment questionnaire for the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
Draft harmonized self-assessment questionnaire for the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
Draft harmonized self-assessment questionnaire for the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
Draft harmonized self-assessment questionnaire for the Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
The report of the first session of the Open-ended Intergovernmental Expert Group of the Conference of the Parties , in accordance with Conference resolution 9.1, including the Self-assessment questionnaire for the review of the implementation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
Draft questionnaire for the review of the implementation of the Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their parts and Components and Ammunition (Firearms Protocol)
Status: 29 January 2020
Rolling text containing a draft self-assessment questionnaire of the Trafficking in Persons Protocol, reflecting the discussions held during the informal consultations on 19 February 2020
Status: 19 February 2020, 15:00 P.M.
Questionnaire for the review of the implementation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC), as finalized by the first session of the Intergovernmental expert group in accordance with Conference resolution 9/1, for consideration by the Conference of the Parties at its tenth session
Status: 11 October 2020
Draft questionnaire for the review of the implementation of the Smuggling of Migrants Protocol
Annexed to the report of the fifth session of the Working Group on Smuggling of Migrants, held on 4 and 5 July 2018
Report on the meeting of the intergovernmental expert group established in accordance with Conference resolution 9/1, held in Vienna from 9 to 11 October 2019
Provisions of UNTOC and the Smuggling of Migrants Protocol not addressed in the self-assessment questionnaires (Status 13 July 2020)
Mechanism for the Review of the Implementation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto: draft guidelines for conducting the country reviews and blueprints for the lists of observations and the summaries
Comparison table on the numbering of questions on the pending issues for the questionnaires on the Trafficking in Persons and Firearms Protocols (as shared in the informal consultation held on 22 April 2020)
Comparison table on the numbering of the pending questions (conversion with the old questionnaires based on the four clusters as defined by resolution 9/1)
Rolling text of the informal consultations held on 23 April 2020 (Cluster I, II, III and IV of the self-assessment questionnaires)
Rolling text of the informal consultations held on 30 April 2020 (Cluster I, II, III and IV of the self-assessment questionnaires)
Information note on the informal consultations on the harmonization of the self-assessment questionnaires of UNTOC and its Protocols: 27-28 April 2020
Rolling text of the self-assessment questionnaire for the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto – Cluster I (Status: 13 July 2020, 18:00)
Rolling text of the self-assessment questionnaire for the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto – Cluster I, II, III, IV (Status: 14 July 2020, 18:00)
Rolling text of the self-assessment questionnaire for the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto – Cluster I, II (Status: 15 July 2020, 14:00)
Cluster I, Cluster II, Cluster III, Cluster IV (WORD documents)
Cluster I, Cluster II, Cluster III, Cluster IV (WORD documents)
Cluster I, Cluster II, Cluster III, Cluster IV (WORD documents)
Cluster I, Cluster II (WORD documents)