(PROPOSED DRAFT OF ARTICLE 1 (DEFINITIONS) OF THE CONVENTION AGAINST ILLICIT TRAFFIC IN NARCOTIC DRUGS AND PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES BY THE INFORMAL WORKING GROUP *)
Article 1
DEFINITIONS
Except where otherwise expressly indicated, or where the context otherwise requires, the following terms in this Convention have the meanings given below:
(a)
"Board" means the International Narcotics Control Board provided for in the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961;
(b) "Commercial carrier" means any person or entity engaged in transporting, for remuneration or hire, persons or goods;
(c)
(d)
"Commission" means the Commission on Narcotic Drugs of the Council;
"Controlled delivery" means the investigative technique of allowing illicit consignments of controlled substances [or specific chemicals] to pass out, through or into the territory of one or more countries, with the knowledge and under surveillance of their competent authorities;
(e) "Controlled substances" means any of the substances in Schedules I and II of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, and of that Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, and any of the substances in Schedules I, II, III and IV of the Convention on Psychotropic Substances, 1971;
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Definitions contained in the text of article 1 refer to the substantive provisions of the draft as they exist at the present state. Any future change in the content of the substantive articles or paragraphs may imply modification of the definitions.
The possibility of inserting new definitions, when necessary because of the inclusion in the substantive articles of new subject-matters, as, for instance, "non-commercial carriers", was recognized.
It was also recognized that normative elements which may be related to each definition shall be included in the corresponding substantive provisions (as e.g. whether recourse to controlled delivery technique must be based on mutual agreement of the states concerned).
The definition of the term "transit state" is indicated, but not formulated, because the substantive provisions where it would be used are so far not sufficiently defined and some delegations announced that they will propose a new draft.