Takes note of the recommendations concerning the role of criminal law in protecting the environment, made by the Ad Hoc Expert Group on More Effective Forms of International Cooperation against Transnational Crime, including Environmental Crime, held at Vienna, 7-10 Dec. 1993; requests that the report of the International Meeting of Experts on the Use of Criminal Sanctions in the Protection of the Environment, Internationally, Domestically and Regionally, held at Portland, Oregon 19-23 Mar. 1994, be issued under the auspices of UN and included, together with the report of the Ad Hoc Expert Group, in the documentation to be prepared for the 9th UN Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders; requests the Secretary-General to take the conclusions of the Seminar on the Policy of Criminal Law in the Protection of Nature and the Environment in a European Perspective, held at Lauchhammer, Germany, 25-29 April 1992 and the recommendations of the Ad Hoc Expert Group and of the International Meeting of Experts into consideration by developing further activities in the UN crime prevention and criminal justice programme.

Adopted without vote, 43rd meeting

Adopted at the 43rd plenary meeting, 25 July 1994.
"Annex: Recommendations concerning the role of criminal law in protecting the environment": p. 29-31.
In: Resolutions and decisions of the Economic and Social Council, organizational session for 1994, New York, 25 January and 3 and 4 February 1994; resumed organizational session for 1994, New York, 6 June 1994; substantive session of 1994, New York, 27 June-29 July 1994; second special session of 1994, New York, 16 September 1994; resumed substantive session of 1994, New York, 3 and 4 November 1994 - E/1994/94 - p. 28-31 - (ESCOR, 1994, Suppl. no. 1).