Condemns the perpetration of fraud, the criminal misuse and falsification of identity and other illicit activities supported thereby; requests the Secretary-General to convene, in consultation with regional groups and subject to the availability of extrabudgetary resources, an intergovernmental expert group, with representation based on the regional composition of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice and reflecting the diversity of legal systems and open to any Member State wishing to participate as an observer, to prepare a study on fraud and the criminal misuse and falsification of identity; recommends that the Secretary-General designate the UN Office on Drugs and Crime to serve as secretariat for the intergovernmental expert group, in consultation with the secretariat of the UN Commission on International Trade Law.

Adopted without vote, 47th plenary meeting

In: Resolutions and decisions of the Economic and Social Council, organizational session for 2004, New York, 21 Jan., 4-6, 13 and 27 Feb. and 3 May 2004; resumed organizational session for 2004, New York, 4 May and 3 and 15 June 2004; substantive session of 2004, New York, 28 June-23 July 2004; resumed substantive session of 2004, New York, 16 Sept. and 5 and 11 Nov. 2004 - E/2004/99 - p. 53-55 - (ESCOR, 2004, Suppl. no. 1).