Strengthening systems of control over chemical precursors and preventing their diversion and trafficking

Urges all States to exchange information regarding suspicious transactions or shipments of substances suspected of being diverted for use in illicit drug production; calls upon all States to inform competent authorities of States about matters concerning introduction of substances substituted for controlled substances and the use of new techniques in the synthesis, refining and extraction of illicit drugs; encourages all States to make full use of existing channels of communication for the timely exchange of information on enterprises that have been given penalities for improper management of chemicals, as well as on routes and means of trafficking and diversion, on methods of camouflaging and on means of falsifying and manipulating customs documents, and any other information necessary to exercise more effective control; reiterates the vital importance of the process of prior notification of export of chemicals used in the manufacture of organic and synthetic drugs.

Adopted without vote, 44th plenary meeting

In: Resolutions and decisions of the Economic and Social Council, organizational session for 2003, New York, 15, 28, 30 and 31 Jan. 2003; resumed organizational session for 2003, New York, 5 and 25 March, 29 April, 1 and 27 May and 24 June 2002; substantive session of 2003, Geneva, 30 June-25 July 2003; resumed substantive session of 2003, New York, 22 Aug., 31 Oct. and 19 Dec. 2003 - E/2003/99 - p. 66-67 - (ESCOR, 2003, Suppl. no. 1).