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8. (a) “Manufacturing equipment” means machinery which is designed, or adapted, to be used solely for the manufacture of tobacco products and is integral to the manufacturing process.1 (b) “Any part thereof” in the context of manufacturing equipment means any identifiable part which is unique to manufacturing equipment used in the manufacture of tobacco products.

9. “Party” means, unless the context indicates otherwise, a Party to this Protocol.
10. “Personal data” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
11. “Regional economic integration organization” means an organization that is composed of several sovereign states, and to which its Member States have transferred competence over a range of matters, including the authority to make decisions binding on its Member States in respect of those matters.2 12. The “supply chain” covers the manufacture of tobacco products and manufacturing equipment; and import or export of tobacco products and manufacturing equipment; and may be extended, where relevant, to one or more of the following activities when so decided by a Party: (a) retailing of tobacco products; (b) growing of tobacco, except for traditional small-scale growers, farmers and producers; (c) transporting commercial quantities of tobacco products or manufacturing equipment; and (d) wholesaling, brokering, warehousing or distribution of tobacco and tobacco products or manufacturing equipment.

13. “Tobacco products” means products entirely or partly made of the leaf tobacco as raw material, which are manufactured to be used for smoking, sucking, chewing or snuffing.
14. “Tracking and tracing” means systematic monitoring and re-creation by competent authorities or any other person acting on their behalf of the route or movement taken by items through the supply chain, as outlined in Article 8.

ARTICLE 2 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THIS PROTOCOL AND OTHER AGREEMENTS AND LEGAL INSTRUMENTS

1. The provisions of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control that apply to its protocols shall apply to this Protocol.
2. Parties that have entered into the types of agreements mentioned in Article 2 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control shall communicate such agreements to the Meeting of the Parties through the Convention Secretariat.
3. Nothing in this Protocol shall affect the rights and obligations of any Party pursuant to any other international convention, treaty or international agreement in force for that Party that it deems to be more conducive to the achievement of the elimination of illicit trade in tobacco products.
4. Nothing in this Protocol shall affect other rights, obligations and responsibilities of Parties under international law, including the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime.

ARTICLE 3 OBJECTIVE

The objective of this Protocol is to eliminate all forms of illicit trade in tobacco products, in accordance with the terms of Article 15 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
1 Parties may include reference to the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System of the World Customs Organization for this purpose, wherever applicable.
2 Where appropriate, national or domestic will refer equally to regional economic integration organizations.