Decision
The committee’s reasoning, particularly in paragraph 7.3, would make it possible for the gravest violations of, say, United Nations Security Council sanctions or rules adopted within the framework of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES) to enjoy impunity just as long as their acts or their responsibility for the acts remained undetected until the sanctions were eventually lifted once the situation justifying them had been resolved or the previously endangered species no longer required protection.