A/HRC/15/25 (b) To increase the effectiveness of import, export and transit controls, including, where appropriate, border controls, and of police and customs transborder duties and cooperation with neighbouring States; and (c) To regulate the possession and use of firearms by personnel of PMSCs inside the premises of the client they have been contracted to protect, and to restrict them from possession and use of firearms outside the limits of the premises in which they have been contracted to provide security. Part III Legislative regulation, oversight and monitoring Article 12 Specific legislative regulation Each State party shall develop and adopt national legislation to adequately and effectively regulate the activities of PMSCs. Article 13 National regime of regulation and oversight 1. Each State party shall: (a) Establish a comprehensive domestic regime of regulation and oversight over the activities in its territory of PMSCs and their personnel including all foreign personnel, in order to prohibit and investigate illegal activities as defined by this Convention as well as by relevant national laws; (b) In order to ensure that administrative, regulatory, law enforcement and other bodies, implementing the regime of regulation and oversight over the activities of PMSCs and their personnel, are able to cooperate and exchange information at national and international levels, there should be established, at the domestic level, a register and/or a governmental body which shall act as a national centre for collection, analysis and exchange of information concerning possible violations of national and international law so as to provide operative information about the activities of PMSCs. 2. States parties shall apply practical measures for sharing information on companies providing military and security services outside their territories and for establishing control over the provision of such services, as consistent with the safeguards aimed at ensuring the proper use of information without impeding their legal implementation in any way. Such measures may include the provision of information or reports on the use of transborder military and security services by persons as well as legal entities, for example companies. 3. In the establishment of a domestic regime of regulation and oversight according to the provisions of this article and in compliance with other articles of this Convention, all States parties agree to be guided by the respective initiatives of regional, interregional and multilateral organizations. 4. States parties shall endeavour to develop and encourage global, regional, subregional and bilateral cooperation among judicial bodies, law-enforcement agencies and financial regulation bodies in order to monitor and control any use of force by PMSCs. GE.10-15155 27