4The Protocol Against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organised Crime was signed by the European Community on 12 December 2000 in accordance with Council Decision 2001/87/EC of 8 December 2000 (OJ 2001 L 30, p. 44; ‘the Palermo Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants’). That protocol was approved by Council Decision 2006/616/EC of 24 July 2006 (OJ 2006 L 262, p. 24), in so far as the provisions of that protocol fell within Articles 179 and 181a EC, and by Council Decision 2006/617/EC of 24 July 2006 (OJ 2006 L 262, p. 34), in so far those provisions fell within Part III, Title IV of the EC Treaty. Article 2 of the Palermo Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants provides:‘The purpose of this Protocol is to prevent and combat the smuggling of migrants, as well as to promote cooperation among States Parties to that end, while protecting the rights of smuggled migrants.’
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