18. 专家组注意到，许多答复中所载的资料未将与恐怖集团或恐怖活动有关的事件同那些与其他个人或有组织犯罪集团有关的事件区分开来。专家组认为，在分析这些答复时，恐怖因素的涉及在某些情况下对于适当说明所报告的资料是必要的，而且那些报告这种情况的国家在多数情况下都将这个问题确定或定性为全部或部分具有恐怖主义性质。专家组因此认为，为调查分析目的，在报告国根据其自己的资料定性或认定为恐怖主义的情况下，专家组将接受这种定性或认定。
18. The Group of Experts noted that many of the survey responses contained data that did not distinguish between incidents associated with terrorist groups or activities and those associated with other individuals or organized criminal groups. It decided that, in analysing the replies, the involvement of terrorist elements was in some cases necessary to properly account for the information reported, and that the States that reported that information in most cases identified or characterized the problem as being wholly or partly of a terrorist nature. The Group therefore decided to accept the characterization or designation of terrorism where that was made by reporting States in respect of their own data for the purposes of the survey analysis.