Judgment_paragraph 3 · Miguel M. and Others (C-627/13, C-2/14)

3Headed ‘Substances frequently used in the illicit manufacture of narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances’, Article 12 of the United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, concluded in Vienna on 20 December 1988 (United Nations Treaty Series, vol. 1582, No 1-27627) and approved by Council Decision 90/611/EEC of 22 October 1990 (OJ 1990 L 326, p. 56) (‘the 1988 United Nations Convention’), provides in paragraph (1) that ‘[t]he Parties shall take the measures they deem appropriate to prevent diversion of substances in Table I and Table II used for the purpose of illicit manufacture of narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances, and shall co-operate with one another to this end’.