RUSSIAN FEDERATION FEDERAL LAW On ratification of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and against the smuggling of migrants by land, sea and air, and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, and punished by the State Duma March 2004 Approved by the Federation Council on 14 April 2004 Article 1 Article 1 Ratify the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime of 15 November 2000, signed on behalf of the Russian Federation in the city of Palermo on 12 December 2000 (hereinafter referred to as the Convention), with the following declarations: 1) The Russian Federation declares, in accordance with article 13, paragraph 6, of the Convention, that it shall, on the basis of reciprocity, consider the Convention as necessary and sufficient the legal basis for the measures imposed by article 13, paragraphs 1 and 2 Convention; 2) The Russian Federation has jurisdiction over acts recognized as criminal under articles 5, 6, 8 and 23 of the Convention, in the cases referred to in article 15, paragraphs 1 and 3, of the Convention; (3) Russian Federation In accordance with article 16, paragraph 5 (a), of the Convention, it declares that it shall, on the basis of reciprocity, use the Convention as the legal basis for cooperation on extradition with other States parties to the Convention; 4) The Russian Federation believes that the provisions of article 16, paragraph 14, of the Convention should be applied in such a way as to ensure the inevitability of liability for the commission of offences under the Convention, without prejudice to the effectiveness of international cooperation in extradition and legal assistance matters; (5) The Russian Federation declares, in accordance with article 18, paragraph 7, of the Convention, that it shall, on the basis of reciprocity, apply paragraphs 9 to 29 of article 18 of the Convention instead of the relevant provisions of the treaty on mutual legal assistance concluded by the Russian Federation. by the Federation with another State Party to the Convention if, in the opinion of the The Russian Federation, on the basis of the last sentence of article 18, paragraph 13, of the Convention, declares that it will be based on reciprocity and in the case of Emergency requests for mutual legal assistance and communications through the International Criminal Police Organization, subject to immediate dispatch of documents containing relevant documents Russian Federation, pursuant to Article 18, paragraph 14, of the Convention states that requests for legal assistance sent to the Russian Federation and the material annexed thereto must be accompanied by a translation into Russian, unless otherwise established by the Russian Federation. The Federation or not to agree otherwise between the central authority of the Russian Federation and the central authority of another State Party to the Convention; 8), the Russian Federation declares that, in accordance with article 27, paragraph 2, It will consider the Convention as a basis for mutual cooperation. between law enforcement agencies in respect of offences covered by the Convention, provided that this cooperation does not include the conduct of investigative and other legal proceedings in the territory of the Russian Federation. Article 2 Ratify the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, of 15 November 2000, Signed on behalf of the Russian Federation in the city of Palermo on 12 December 2000. Article 3 Ratify the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime on 12 December 2000, signed on behalf of the Russian Federation in the city of Palermo on 12 December 2000. Article 4 This Federal Law shall enter into force on the date of its official publication. President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin Moscow, Kremlin 26 April 2004 N 26-FZ
