A/RES/52/85 Page 3 providing him with data and other information, as well as legislative and regulatory texts, and to keep such data up to date; 11. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to provide States with advisory services and other forms of assistance on request in the field of prevention and control of organized transnational crime; 12. Also requests the Secretary-General to assist States in collecting and systematizing data and other information on the occurrence, dimensions and patterns of organized transnational crime by designing and undertaking a comparative study on the situation of organized transnational crime throughout the world; 13. Further requests the Secretary-General to review the data submitted to the central repository and to take that data into account in developing model legislation against organized transnational crime as well as technical manuals for law enforcement and judicial personnel and for agencies engaged in preventive activities; 14. Decides to establish an inter-sessional open-ended intergovernmental group of experts, from within existing resources or, where possible, funded by extrabudgetary resources, if made available, for the purpose of elaborating a preliminary draft of a possible comprehensive international convention against organized transnational crime, which would submit a report thereon to the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice at its seventh session; 15. Welcomes the generous offer of the Government of Poland to organize and host a meeting of the intergovernmental group of experts; 16. Requests the intergovernmental group of experts, when elaborating the preliminary draft: (a) To take into account existing multilateral instruments, the draft United Nations framework convention against organized crime presented by the Government of Poland at the fifty-first session of the General Assembly,5 contained in annex III to Economic and Social Council resolution 1997/22, the report of the Chairman of the Working Group on the Implementation of the Naples Political Declaration and Global Action Plan against Organized Transnational Crime and the Question of the Elaboration of an International Convention against Organized Transnational Crime, contained in annex IV to Council resolution 1997/22, the principles indicated in the forty recommendations mentioned in paragraph 2 above and the observations and proposals made by other member States during the sixth session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, including those contained in annexes V and VI to Council resolution 1997/22, as well as those contained in the report of the Secretary-General on the question of the elaboration of an international convention against organized transnational crime 3 and the principles contained in the report of the Secretary-General on measures to prevent trafficking in children;6 (b) To give priority consideration to the following issues: (i) Measures for judicial and police cooperation, particularly in relation to mutual assistance, extradition, money laundering and confiscation of illicit assets, protection of witnesses, information sharing, training and other forms of technical assistance; (ii) Identification of the scope of application of the above-mentioned measures, having particular regard to the documents contained in annexes III and IV to Council resolution 1997/22, referred to in subparagraph (a) above; 5 A/C.3/51/7, annex. 6 E/CN.15/1997/12. /...