24. 专家组注意到，许多最严重的与爆炸物有关的犯罪或者涉及报告国认定具有恐怖主义性质的罪犯或活动，或者涉及其他有组织犯罪集团的成员或活动。在有些情况下，这类团伙因相互勾结或合并而难以区分。此外，虽然“有组织犯罪集团”是一个国际界定的术语，但恐怖主义的概念和含义却是多种多样的。专家组因此认为今后进行任何研究和制定意在区分犯罪和恐怖主义的研究或制订任何这类政策都是不切实际的。
24. The Group of Experts noted that many of the most serious explosive-related crimes involved either offenders or activities identified by the States that reported them as being of a terrorist nature, or involved the members or activities of other organized criminal groups. In some cases, such groups were cooperating or were merged to the point where they became indistinguishable. Also, while “organized criminal group” was an internationally defined term, the concept and meaning of terrorism varied. The Group therefore considered the conduct of any future research and development of policies which attempted to distinguish between crime and terrorism to be impracticable.