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ARTICLE-1: DEFINITIONS [go to this ARTICLE]
... (l) "Illicit traffic" means cultivation or trafficking in drugs contrary to the provisions of this Convention. ...
ARTICLE-9: COMPOSITION AND FUNCTIONS OF THE BOARD [go to this ARTICLE]
... 4. The Board, in co-operation with Governments, and subject to the terms of this Convention, shall endeavour to limit the cultivation, production, manufacture and use of drugs to an adequate amount required for medical and scientific purposes, to ensure their availability for such purposes and to prevent illicit cultivation, production and manufacture of, and illicit trafficking in and use of, drugs. ...
... 4. The Board, in co-operation with Governments, and subject to the terms of this Convention, shall endeavour to limit the cultivation, production, manufacture and use of drugs to an adequate amount required for medical and scientific purposes, to ensure their availability for such purposes and to prevent illicit cultivation, production and manufacture of, and illicit trafficking in and use of, drugs. ...
ARTICLE-14: MEASURES BY THE BOARD TO ENSURE THE EXECUTION OF PROVISIONS OF THE CONVENTION [go to this ARTICLE]
... (a) If, on the basis of its examination of information submitted by Governments to the Board under the provisions of this Convention, or of information communicated by United Nations organs or by specialized agencies or, provided that they are approved by the Commission on the Board's recommendation, by either other intergovernmental organizations or international non-governmental organizations which have direct competence in the subject matter and which are in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council under Article 71 of the Charter of the United Nations or which enjoy a similar status by special agreement with the Council, the Board has objective reasons to believe that the aims of this Convention are being seriously endangered by reason of the failure of any Party, country or territory to carry out the provisions of this Convention, the Board shall have the right to propose to the Government concerned the opening of consultations or to request it to furnish explanations. If, without any failure in implementing the provisions of the Convention, a Party or a country or territory has become, or if there exists evidence of a serious risk that it may become, or if there exists evidence of a serious risk that it may become, an important centre of illicit cultivation, production or manufacture of, or traffic in or consumption of drugs, the Board has the right to propose to the Government concerned the opening of consultations. Subject to the right of the Board to call the attention of the Parties, the Council and the Commission to the matter referred to in subparagraph (d) below, the Board shall treat as confidential a request for information and an explanation by a Government or a proposal for consultations and the consultations held with a Government under this subparagraph. ...
ARTICLE-19: ESTIMATES OF DRUG REQUIREMENTS [go to this ARTICLE]
... (e) The area (in hectares) and the geographical location of land to be used for the cultivation of the opium poppy; ...
ARTICLE-20: STATISTICAL RETURNS TO BE FURNISHED TO THE BOARD [go to this ARTICLE]
... (g) Ascertainable area of cultivation of the opium poppy. ...
ARTICLE-22: SPECIAL PROVISION APPLICABLE TO CULTIVATION [go to this ARTICLE]
... SPECIAL PROVISION APPLICABLE TO CULTIVATION ...
... 1. Whenever the prevailing conditions in the country or a territory of a Party render the prohibition of the cultivation of the opium poppy, the coca bush or the cannabis plant the most suitable measure, in its opinion, for protecting the public health and welfare and preventing the diversion of drugs into the illicit traffic, the Party concerned shall prohibit cultivation. ...
... 1. Whenever the prevailing conditions in the country or a territory of a Party render the prohibition of the cultivation of the opium poppy, the coca bush or the cannabis plant the most suitable measure, in its opinion, for protecting the public health and welfare and preventing the diversion of drugs into the illicit traffic, the Party concerned shall prohibit cultivation. ...
... 2. A Party prohibiting cultivation of the opium poppy or the cannabis plant shall take appropriate measures to seize any plants illicitly cultivated and to destroy them, except for small quantities required by the Party for scientific or research purposes. ...
... 2. A Party prohibiting cultivation of the opium poppy or the cannabis plant shall take appropriate measures to seize any plants illicitly cultivated and to destroy them, except for small quantities required by the Party for scientific or research purposes. ...
ARTICLE-23: NATIONAL OPIUM AGENCIES [go to this ARTICLE]
... 1. A Party that permits the cultivation of the opium poppy for the production of opium shall establish, if it has not already done so, and maintain, one or more government agencies (hereafter in this article referred to as the Agency) to carry out the functions required under this article. ...
... 2. Each such Party shall apply the following provisions to the cultivation of the opium poppy for the production of opium and to opium; ...
... (a) The Agency shall designate the areas in which, and the plots of land on which, cultivation of the opium poppy for the purpose of producing opium shall be permitted. ...
... (b) Only cultivators licensed by the Agency shall be authorized to engage in such cultivation. ...
... (b) Only cultivators licensed by the Agency shall be authorized to engage in such cultivation. ...
... (c) Each licence shall specify the extent of the land on which the cultivation is permitted. ...
... (d) All cultivators of the opium poppy shall be required to deliver their total crops of opium to the Agency. The Agency shall purchase and take physical possession of such crops as soon as possible, but not later than four months after the end of the harvest. ...
ARTICLE-25: CONTROL OF POPPY STRAW [go to this ARTICLE]
... 1. A Party that permits the cultivation of the opium poppy for purposes other than the production of opium shall take all measures necessary to ensure: ...
ARTICLE-26: THE COCA BUSH AND COCA LEAVES [go to this ARTICLE]
... 1. If a Party permits the cultivation of the coca bush, it shall apply thereto and to coca leaves the system of controls as provided in article 23 respecting the control of the opium poppy, but as regards paragraph 2 (d) of that article, the requirements imposed on the Agency therein referred to shall be only to take physical possession of the crops as soon as possible after the end of the harvest. ...
... 2. The Parties shall so far as possible enforce the uprooting of all coca bushes which grow wild. They shall destroy the coca bushes if illegally cultivated. ...
ARTICLE-28: CONTROL OF CANNABIS [go to this ARTICLE]
... 1. If a Party permits the cultivation of the cannabis plant for the production of cannabis or cannabis resin, it shall apply thereto the system of controls as provided in article 23 respecting the control of the opium poppy. ...
... 2. This Convention shall not apply to the cultivation of the cannabis plant exclusively for industrial purposes (fibre and seed) or horticultural purposes. ...
ARTICLE-35: ACTION AGAINST THE ILLICIT TRAFFIC [go to this ARTICLE]
... (f) Furnish, if they deem it appropriate, to the Board and the Commission through the Secretary-General, in addition to information required by article 18, information relating to illicit drug activity within their borders, including information on illicit cultivation, production, manufacture and use of, and on illicit trafficking in, drugs; and ...
ARTICLE-36: PENAL PROVISIONS [go to this ARTICLE]
... (a) Subject to its constitutional limitations, each Party shall adopt such measures as will ensure that cultivation, production, manufacture, extraction, preparation, possession, offering, offering for sale, distribution, purchase, sale, delivery on any terms whatsoever, brokerage, dispatch, dispatch in transit, transport, importation and exportation of drugs contrary to the provisions of this Convention, and any other action which in the opinion of such Party may be contrary to the provisions of this Convention, shall be punishable offences when committed intentionally, and that serious offences shall be liable to adequate punishment particularly by imprisonment or other penalties of deprivation of liberty. ...
ARTICLE-44: TERMINATION OF PREVIOUS INTERNATIONAL TREATIES [go to this ARTICLE]
... (i) Protocol for Limiting and Regulating the Cultivation of the Poppy Plant, the Production of, International and Wholesale Trade
in, and Use of Opium, signed at New York on 23 June 1953, should that Protocol have come into force. ...