J. Illicit trade in hazardous waste

The databases could store information on importing, exporting and transit countries and the conditions for issuing licenses, which contribute to the enforcement of preventative measures and countermeasures against illegal trade

The extent of this illicit trade is now estimated by the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) to be second only to trafficking in illicit drugs in financial turnover.

A. Usurpation of legitimate commerce

In contrast, fishermen engaged in smuggling goods, weapons, drugs and human beings, inter alia, reap alluring profits, and it is this that induces them to perpetrate such acts in violation of the law.

Recalling that the elimination of illicit diamonds from legitimate trade is the primary objective of the Kimberley Process,

(b) Coordinating within regional networks to exchange information on licit and illicit trade. Consideration may be given to setting up databases on illegal trade in the regional networks.

In some countries illegal trade in ozone depleting substances has increased dramatically and a variety of smuggling methods have emerged.

While the proportion of this trade that is illegal is difficult to determine, it is estimated that the financial cost of the illicit global wildlife trade runs into several billion dollars and that its environmental costs are immeasurable.

Greater international cooperation is also required to effectively combat the illegal trade in wildlife.

Organized crime is taking over all aspects of this illicit trade, from smuggling precursor chemicals to manufacturing and trafficking the drugs.

Illicit synthetic drugs

Illicit synthetic drugs

Illegal migration

Illegal trade in hazardous waste continues to occur in violation of the 1989 Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal.

Responsibility of international organizations

Illicit synthetic drugs

China fully supports the efforts being made against the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons and has played an active part in the relevant international efforts.

While there are strong indications that organized criminal groups are involved in the illicit trade, the extent and nature of that involvement remains unclear.

(b) Increasing the awareness of the Afghan population about the problems and threats emanating from the illicit cultivation of opium poppy and the production of and trafficking in illicit narcotic drugs

(b) Increasing the awareness of the Afghan population about the problems and threats emanating from the illicit cultivation of opium poppy and the production of and trafficking in illicit narcotic drugs

The Illicit Crop Monitoring Programme assists the international community and Governments concerned in monitoring the extent and evolution of the illicit cultivation of narcotic crops.

(a) Effective export, import and transfer controls and their enforcement as the keystone to any successful efforts to mitigate the problems of illicit trade in small arms and light weapons

Responsibility of States for internationally wrongful acts

Responsibility of a State for its internationally wrongful acts

The illegal drug economy is also a great challenge.

Two important new research initiatives were launched during the period an investigation into the value of illicit drug markets and the development of a global illicit drug index.

Being in virtual control of large swathes of Central American territory and being able to act with relative impunity are ultimately very good for business.

5. Urges Afghanistan to maintain illicit drug control among its highest priorities, as stipulated in its Constitution and the Counter Narcotics Implementation Plan, with a view to enhancing its efforts to combat the illicit cultivation of opium poppy, the production of illicit drugs and trafficking in illicit drugs and precursors

Urges Afghanistan to maintain illicit drug control among its highest priorities, as stipulated in its Constitution and the Counter Narcotic Implementation Plan, with a view to enhancing its efforts to combat the illicit cultivation of opium poppy, the production of illicit drugs and trafficking in illicit drugs and precursors

Urges Afghanistan to maintain illicit drug control among its highest priorities, as stipulated in its Constitution and the Counter Narcotic Implementation Plan, with a view to enhancing its efforts to combat the illicit cultivation of opium poppy, the production of illicit drugs and trafficking in illicit drugs and precursors

Urges Afghanistan to maintain illicit drug control among its highest priorities, as stipulated in its Constitution and the Counter Narcotics Implementation Plan, with a view to enhancing its efforts to combat the illicit cultivation of opium poppy, the production of illicit drugs and trafficking in illicit drugs and precursors

56 83. Responsibility of States for internationally wrongful acts

62 61. Responsibility of States for internationally wrongful acts

59 35. Responsibility of States for internationally wrongful acts

International cooperation in illicit crop eradication and alternative development

Promotion of policies for the prevention of illicit drug use

Illicit brokering of small arms and light weapons

The illicit narcotics industry dominates Afghanistan's economy.

A critical first step would be to determine with greater precision the role of organized criminal groups in the illicit trade in endangered species and to build a response that seeks to tackle those areas of the trade where organized crime has the clearest presence.

Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts of Violence at Airports Serving International Civil Aviation, Supplementary to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation

Protocol on the Suppression of Unlawful Acts of Violence at Airports Serving International Civil Aviation, supplementary to the Convention for the suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation

The establishment of a network of regional illicit crop monitoring experts based in Afghanistan, Myanmar and Peru contributed to the effective implementation of the illicit crop monitoring programme in the field.

The illicit drug trade, spanning the borders of consumer, producer and transit countries, exposes local populations to illicit drugs all along the production chain throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.

The Commission also condemns the fact that illegal armed groups continue to fund their activities through kidnapping, and through involvement in the production and trafficking of illegal drugs.