Article 31.
Prevention
1. States Parties shall endeavour to develop and evaluate national
projects and to establish and promote best practices and policies aimed at the
prevention of transnational organized crime.
2. States Parties shall endeavour, in accordance with fundamental principles of their domestic law, to reduce existing or future opportunities for
organized criminal groups to participate in lawful markets with proceeds of
crime, through appropriate legislative, administrative or other measures. These
measures should focus on:
(a) The strengthening of cooperation between law enforcement agencies
or prosecutors and relevant private entities, including industry;
(b) The promotion of the development of standards and procedures designed to safeguard the integrity of public and relevant private entities, as well
as codes of conduct for relevant professions, in particular lawyers, notaries
public, tax consultants and accountants;
(c) The prevention of the misuse by organized criminal groups of tender
procedures conducted by public authorities and of subsidies and licences
granted by public authorities for commercial activity;
(d) The prevention of the misuse of legal persons by organized criminal
groups; such measures could include:
(i) The establishment of public records on legal and natural persons
involved in the establishment, management and funding of legal
persons;
(ii) The introduction of the possibility of disqualifying by court
order or any appropriate means for a reasonable period of time
persons convicted of offences covered by this Convention from
acting as directors of legal persons incorporated within their
jurisdiction;
(iii) The establishment of national records of persons disqualified
from acting as directors of legal persons; and
(iv) The exchange of information contained in the records referred
to in subparagraphs (d) (i) and (iii) of this paragraph with the
competent authorities of other States Parties.
3. States Parties shall endeavour to promote the reintegration into society
of persons convicted of offences covered by this Convention.
4. States Parties shall endeavour to evaluate periodically existing relevant
legal instruments and administrative practices with a view to detecting their
vulnerability to misuse by organized criminal groups.
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