The (UN-) Systematic Nature of the UN Criminal Justice System: The (NON) Relationship Between the Draft Illicit Tobacco Trade Protocol and the UN Convention Against Transnational Organised Crime

Abstract

The illicit trade in tobacco, a transnational trade directed at the evasion of taxes on tobacco products, and a trade which commonly involves organised crime, has recently become the subject of international attention. At its second session, the Conference of the Parties to the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) decided to establish an Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) to draft and negotiate a protocol on the illicit trade in tobacco products. The aim was to build