Why are the crimes to be established by Parties to the Convention drafted so generally?
The Convention does not itself create substantive criminal law offenses or detailed legal procedures. Parties agree to ensure that their domestic laws criminalize several categories of conduct and establish the procedural tools necessary to investigate such crimes under their own national laws. By their nature, multilateral conventions must take into account many different legal systems, and the text of such conventions is often more general than would be a domestic statute. The level of specificity in this convention is consistent with other multilateral law enforcement conventions. Under Council of Europe practice, an Explanatory Report (“ER”) describing the Convention s requirements has also been prepared. This ER describes in more detail the kind of conduct to be criminalized under the Convention to ensure that Parties implement the Convention consistently.
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