European Parliament resolution on strategies to prevent the trafficking of women and children who are vulnerable to sexual exploitation (2004/2216(INI))
Date: 2006-01-17
Institutions: Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality, European Parliament
Subjects: action programme, child protection, cooperation policy, fight against crime, help for victims, prostitution, trafficking in human beings, women's rights

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Combating the trafficking of women and children

European Parliament resolution on strategies to prevent the trafficking of women and children
who are vulnerable to sexual exploitation (2004/2216(INI))

The European Parliament,

— having regard to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (1) and in particular Article

5 (3) thereof, which states that ‘trafficking in humans beings is prohibited’,

(1) OJ C 364, 18.12.2000, p. 1.

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— having regard to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in particular Articles 4 and 5

thereof,

— having regard to UN conventions and declarations, particularly Articles 5 and 6 of the Convention on

the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women,

— having regard to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) which concerns the protection
of children against all forms of sexual exploitation and sexual abuse and seeks to prevent the abduction
or the sale of, or trafficking in, children,

— having regard to the 2000 Palermo Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons,
Especially Women and Children, supplementing the UN Convention against Transnational Organized
Crime,

— having regard to the Brussels Declaration on Preventing and Combating Trafficking in Human Beings
adopted on 20 September 2002 at the European Conference on Preventing and Combating Trafficking
in Human Beings — Global Challenge for the 21st Century, which calls for effective coordinated
actions between the origin, transit and destination countries among all national and international
players in the relevant fields, particularly Articles 7 and 8 thereof,

— having regard to Council Framework Decision 2002/629/JHA of 19 July 2002 on combating trafficking

in human beings (1),

— having regard to Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA of 22 December 2003 on combating the

sexual exploitation of children and child pornography (2),

— having regard to Council Directive 2004/81/EC of 29 April 2004 on the residence permit issued to
third-country nationals who are victims of trafficking in human beings or who have been the subject of
an action to facilitate illegal immigration, who cooperate with the competent authorities (3),

— having regard to the report of the Experts Group on Trafficking in Human Beings (4),

— having regard to the conclusions of the Tampere European Council of 15 and 16 October 1999 calling
for those who engage in trafficking in human beings to be combated and stressing the need for the
prevention of all forms of human trafficking,

— having regard to the communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament
entitled ‘Area of Freedom, Security and Justice: Assessment of the Tampere programme and future
orientations’ (COM(2004)0401),

— having regard to Decision No 293/2000/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24
January 2000 adopting a programme of Community action (the Daphne programme) on preventive
measures to fight violence against children, young persons and women (5),

— having regard to the Declaration of the Fourth UN World Conference on Women in Beijing in

September 1995,

— having regard to the conclusions of the Brussels European Council of 4 and 5 November 2004 and the
Hague Programme on freedom, security and justice which is attached thereto and invites the Council
and the Commission to develop a plan on best practices, standards and mechanism in the fight against
trafficking,

— having regard to the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings

adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 3 May 2005,

— having regard to its resolution of 19 May 2000 on the communication from the Commission to the
Council and the European Parliament ‘For further actions in the fight against trafficking in women’ (6)

(1) OJ L 203, 1.8.2002, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 13, 20.1.2004, p. 44.
(3) OJ L 261 of 6.8.2004, p. 19.
(4) European Commission, DG Justice, Freedom and Security, 2004.
(5) OJ L 34, 9.2.2000, p. 1.
(6) OJ C 59, 23.2.2001, p. 307.

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— having regard to the Commission Communication on fighting trafficking in human beings — an inte-

grated approach and proposals for an action plan (COM(2005)0514),

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— having regard to Rule 45 of its Rules of Procedure,

— having regard to the report of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality and the opinion

of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (A6-0400/2005),

A. whereas trafficking involves serious violations of fundamental human rights and cruel practices such as

coercion, force, threats, humiliation, abduction, violence, sexual exploitation, deceit or fraud,

B. recalling that, as the President-in-Office of the Council stated before the European Parliament on 23
June 2005, between 600 000 and 800 000 people are the victims of trafficking throughout the world
each year; whereas every year, over 100 000 women are the victims of trafficking in the European
Union,

C. whereas women and children are particularly vulnerable to this organised crime and modern form of
slavery, which is mainly controlled by criminal networks, and are therefore at greater risk of falling
victim to trafficking,

D. whereas one of the principal preconditions for international trafficking in women and children is the
existence of local prostitution markets where certain people can and wish to sell and buy women and
children for the purpose of exploiting them sexually; whereas traffickers in human beings mainly send
women and children from countries in the south to countries in the north and from east to west,
where demand from purchasers is strongest,

E. considering that, in order to achieve zero tolerance of trafficking, the Union should set some visible
and credible targets, such as halving the number of victims of trafficking over the next 10 years;
whereas, however, the overriding objective should of course be to fully eliminate this form of very
serious crime and gross violation of human rights as quickly as possible,

F. whereas the Vienna Action Plan of the Council and the Commission on how best to implement the
provisions of the Treaty of Amsterdam on the creation of an area of freedom, security and justice (1)
calls for greater efforts to agree on common definitions, charges and penalties in the first instance in a
limited number of sectors such as trafficking in human beings, particularly the sexual exploitation of
women, adolescents and children,

G. whereas trafficking in children and adolescents cannot be considered on the basis of criteria identical to
the ones relating to trafficking in women, and whereas specific arrangements should therefore be made
which take into account on the one hand the needs of children and on the other the needs of adoles-
cents, since the needs of the latter have to be dealt with in a different way from the needs of children,

H. whereas despite the adoption of Framework Decision 2002/629/JHA (which lays down the constituent
elements and establishes a common definition of trafficking in human beings to be used by the
Member States), the penalties applicable in the Member States (with particular reference to the sexual
exploitation of women and children) have still not been harmonised,

I. bearing in mind that, notwithstanding the Treaties, the numerous legislative measures already adopted
and the political declarations made, such as the 2002 Brussels Declaration, all of which stress the poli-
tical priority of fighting trafficking in human beings, and particularly women and children, there are
still no perceptible real improvements; whereas, on the contrary, trafficking is the fastest-growing crim-
inal activity in comparison to other forms of organised crime,

(1) OJ C 19, 23.1.1999, p. 1.

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J. whereas it is necessary to address the prevention of trafficking not only through individual actions by
each Member State but by a holistic and integrated multidisciplinary approach at the EU and interna-
tional levels which would include the laying down of aspects of criminal law which are common to all
the Member States and which relate in particular to effective, proportionate and dissuasive penalties,

K. having regard to the seriousness of the personal situations of the victims and their vulnerability, but
also the need for their contribution to procedures to hold the criminal organisation to account and to
the investigation into and capture of those responsible for them,

L. whereas the lack of a common agreed definition of trafficking in women and children and the lack of
common guidelines for comparative data, research and analysis are major obstacles to effective actions
and policies,

M. whereas, trafficking in women and children, being a transnational crime, building effective prevention

strategies requires:

— addressing the triangle of the trafficking market, i.e. victim, trafficker and client;

— programmes and protection in terms of legal and psychological assistance for the groups most at

risk;

— appropriate, constant and systematic provision of information and raising of awareness amongst all

categories of the population and in particular amongst vulnerable groups;

— cooperation among the countries of origin, transit and destination;

— cooperation at the global, international, EU, regional, national and local levels;

— coherent action among international organisations such as the United Nations, the Council of
Europe, the European Union, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and the
G8,

N. whereas virtual sex, especially cybersex (virtual sex over the internet), is another expanding market, the
rise of which affects the increase in and amplification of trafficking, as new technologies facilitate the
sexual exploitation of women and children,

Stresses the importance of an approach based on human rights, the use of gender mainstreaming and

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a child sensitive approach in developing and implementing prevention strategies;

2. Deplores the fact that the measures which have so far been taken to reduce trafficking in human
beings have not yielded results in the form of a reduction in the numbers of women and children being
exploited in the sex slave trade; considers on the contrary that trafficking in human beings for sexual
purposes is the fastest-growing criminal activity in comparison with other forms of organised crime in the
EU; stresses that it is high time to adopt clear and specific goals such as halving the number of victims of
trafficking in human beings over the next ten years; considers that, naturally, the overriding aim should be
to eliminate this type of crime completely without delay;

3. Regrets that there is a lack of recognition of the links between trafficking and migration, social protec-
tion and development policy, and calls for more coherent external policy on trafficking;

4. Calls on the Commission and Council to create a clear legal basis for combating all forms of violence
against women, including trafficking, and to take a decision on the full communitarisation of a European
policy to combat trafficking in human beings and on the related topics of immigration and asylum, and
specifically on a right to asylum on the grounds of gender-based repression and persecution;

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5. Recommends a common EU policy focused on drawing up a legal framework and enforcing legislation
and on counter-measures, prevention, prosecuting and punishing perpetrators and protecting and
supporting victims;

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6. Underlines the need to develop specific anti-trafficking measures within the framework of the EU
neighbourhood policy; calls urgently for financial assistance to be provided to the accession states such as
Bulgaria and Romania to enable them to develop long-term strategies to prevent trafficking;

7. Considers that the actions of the Member States should be in accord with their political declarations
and that the Member States should transpose the relevant Community legislation in a more efficient way,
particularly by improving operational cooperation and the exchange of relevant data between themselves
and with Europol and Eurojust;

8.
Stresses that the promotion of gender equality in all EU policies and the implementation of national
legislation on equal opportunities are essential to counter-act the 'drivers' of trafficking, such as poverty,
social exclusion, unemployment,
lack of education, corruption, discrimination and violence against
women;

9. Considers that research into the underlying causes of trafficking in human beings particularly traf-
ficking in women and children for purposes of sexual exploitation - (i.e. what factors place people at risk
of being trafficked and what factors affect demand for sexual services and sexual exploitation of women
and children) should be carried out at both national and Community level; calls on the Member States and
the Commission to continue research into the subject and to grant the necessary funding from the
programmes available, such as Daphne; considers that the findings from such research can help to bring
about the introduction of an adequate sex education programme in all Member States;

10. Draws the attention of the Commission and the Member States to the findings of the study initiated
by the European Parliament concerning the Member States' various types of law on prostitution and their
relationship with trafficking in women and children for sexual purposes (1);

Stresses that action should be taken first and foremost with a view to explicitly discouraging demand

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by means which include educational, legal, social and cultural measures;

12. Calls on the Member States to seriously address the problems resulting from prostitution on their
territory;

13. Calls on the Council and Commission to include, as a matter of course, in their political dialogue
with third countries, the issue of the trafficking of women and children and — if no improvement is forth-
coming or no clear signal is given by the third country of a political will to take action — to take appro-
priate measures such as those listed in the human rights and democracy clauses in all cooperation and
association agreements with third countries;

14. Calls on the Member States to make a stronger commitment to gender mainstreaming and to a child-
sensitive approach in the EU development cooperation and poverty reduction programmes, and urges
international organisations such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade
Organization to address the battle against the feminisation of poverty and child poverty as priority issues;

Emphasises the importance of addressing the link between trafficking and legal and illegal immigra-

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tion, and of regarding legal migration channels as a mechanism to prevent trafficking;

(1) Study on National Legislation on Trafficking in Women and Children.

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Stresses the link between sexual exploitation and labour exploitation in the provision of domestic
services; underlines that children and adolescents, subject to a dependence of which traffickers take advan-
tage, are exploited not only sexually but also in ways connected with slavery, illegal adoption and forced
labour; calls on vigorous measures with a view to preventing and combating all crimes and offences;

17. Regrets the lack of any analysis of the demand for prostitution in the Member States as a possible
motivation for the phenomenon of trafficking; considers that the Commission should carry out a compre-
hensive study on the impact of the Member States' legislation on prostitution on the number of victims of
trafficking;

18. Calls on the Member States to review and/or revise their visa policies in order to prevent abuse and
provide protection against exploitation; calls on the Member States to ensure that the staff at their consu-
lates in the countries of origin cooperate and exchange experience and that they receive training in how to
recognise cases of trafficking in their work with visa applications; believes that such staff should also be
trained to cooperate with the relevant NGOs;

19. Calls on the Member States to set up national and international telephone helplines against traf-
ficking in women, which would be publicised through information campaigns on national and local televi-
sion, inter alia; supports demands for a child helpline, which should take the form of a standard free inter-
national number for children and points to its declaration pursuant to Rule 116 on child helplines (1);

20. Wishes the humiliating practice of buying and exploiting women and children to be made the
subject of an active and effective campaign under EU programmes in this field; considers that this
campaign should be announced by the Commission and the Member States, with the unqualified support
of the European Parliament and of all the other European institutions in their respective fields of compe-
tence;

21. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to tackle in an urgent and appropriate manner
(including the adoption of legislation) the tendency to use new technologies, particularly the Internet, to
disseminate information about access to, and demand for, women and children for sexual exploitation, the
increase in which affects the increase in trafficking;

22. Regrets the continuing difficulties between the Member States and the European institutions as
regards the ratification and implementation of international treaties and conventions;

23. Calls on the Commission to monitor the implementation and common interpretation of existing
instruments against trafficking and to launch a study on existing legal measures and actions at EU and
international level to combat trafficking in women and children;

24. Welcomes the proposal
in the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in
Human Beings to establish a monitoring mechanism (GRETA) in order to ensure effective implementation
of the provisions thereof and emphasises the need for more intensive cooperation with the Council of
Europe and other international organisations in the implementation of a strategy to combat sexual exploi-
tation; notes that it includes the possibility of penalising clients;

25. Urges the Commission to cooperate with the Council of Europe and other international organisations
like the International Organisation for Migration in the development of common guidelines for data collec-
tion and recommends to establish a common centre as soon as possible for the implementation of
common definitions (trafficking, victim, etc.,), the collection of comparable homogeneous data, for situa-
tion assessment and development, information exchange and evaluation of the links between the purpose
of anti-trafficking laws, policies and action and their actual impact;

(1) Texts Adopted, 17.1.2006, P6_TA-PROV(2006)0009.

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26. Calls on the Commission to submit an independent Daphne programme and ensure that it is kept
distinct from the anti-drugs programme;

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27. Regrets the lack of reliable data on the phenomenon of trafficking in Europe and the fact that
neither the Commission nor Europol, nor any other EU body, has been able to publish precise figures
about the EU-wide extent of trafficking in human beings, and regrets particularly the lack of data on more
vulnerable groups, such as women and children, and the failure to take effective steps to tackle the
problem;

28. Urges the Member States to launch national contact points or to appoint national rapporteurs to
gather, exchange, disseminate and process information on trafficking, and stresses the importance of gath-
ering gender-based and comparable data, bearing in mind that it is of the utmost importance to ensure the
confidentiality of information and to grant NGOs access to information and figures;

29. Calls on the Member States to establish and/or strengthen awareness-raising campaigns targeted at
providing information about the dangers and educating vulnerable members of society in the countries of
origin and to alert and raise the awareness of the public about the problem and reduce the demand in the
countries of destination; in this regard, calls on Member States to recognise that business travellers can be
a part of the solution to trafficking if they are actively engaged in the awareness-raising process and are
encouraged to report what they see; calls on the Member States, especially on Germany, to take appro-
priate measures in the course of the World Cup football tournament in 2006 to prevent trafficking of
women and forced prostitution;

30. Urges the Member States to create a network of media contacts on trafficking to publicise up-to-date
information within the EU and outside;

31. Calls on the Commission to launch an EU-wide Anti-Trafficking Day with an international anti-traf-
ficking logo to raise general awareness of the phenomenon of trafficking in women and children and to
increase public awareness and the visibility of the issue by addressing the public with one coherent
message; considers that this EU-wide Anti-Trafficking Day could coincide with the global campaign called
‘Stop the Traffic’ on 25 March 2006;

32.
Stresses the need for the competent authorities to be staffed with qualified people specially trained in
preventing trafficking by means of joint training programmes for all the parties involved — police, law
enforcement, the medical profession, social workers, representative associations specialising in combating
and preventing trafficking in women and children and others — using gender-sensitive tools and skills;

33. Calls on the Member States to set up an external group of experts to assist the police in order to step
up the investigation of trafficking in women;

Stresses the importance of providing additional funding and staff for advisory bodies on trafficking

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in women and of greater cooperation on the part of non-governmental organisations active in this field;

35. Calls on the Member States to implement and enforce legislation that would strengthen the prosecu-
tion and punishment of traffickers, whether natural or legal persons (in particular by laying down propor-
tionate, effective and dissuasive penalties), their accomplices, authors of websites that advertise trafficking
agents, persons encouraging, arranging or using or seeking sexual services from minors (the definition of
whom must be the same throughout the Member States, namely, persons under 18 years of age) and
persons attempting to institute such activities, and to prosecute the laundering of the proceeds of traf-
ficking;

36. Calls on the Member States to prosecute clients who knowingly make use of the services of forced
prostitutes;

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37. Calls on the Member States to initiate a training campaign at police colleges, schools of social work
and schools on combating and dealing with trafficking in women;

38. Calls on the Member States to increase their supervision of the way in which employment is nego-
tiated in order to prevent the organisation of international trafficking in women;

39. Calls for continuing action to be taken against the laundering of the proceeds of trafficking through
the implementation by the Member States of the various texts adopted at European and international level,
and for consideration to be given, if necessary, to strengthening the existing legal provisions relating to
this type of crime;

Encourages the Member States to ensure that Directive 2004/81/EC is incorporated as quickly as

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possible into their domestic law;

41. Calls on the Member States to promote the principle of corporate social responsibility and public-
private partnership involving civil society organisations in the implementation of prevention, reintegration
and coordination strategies; calls on all the EU institutions to set a good example to other national public
institutions and the private sector;

42. Calls on its Members to support the Business Travellers against Human Trafficking campaign
launched in Parliament in November 2005, as this cross-party initiative attempts to:

— raise awareness among the business travelling community (i.e. Members and others) of the problem of
human trafficking and encourages Members to lead the way in being part of the solution to this
problem;

— provide business travellers with the opportunity to report

incidences of

trafficking through the

www.businesstravellers.org website;

— ask Members to write to hotels to urge them to end linkages between their enterprises and trafficked

women and children;

43. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to intensify their contacts with the hotel and tourist
industry, so as to establish better cooperation on the industry's social responsibility and encourage the
industry to adopt a code of ethics covering trafficking and prostitution where no such code exists;
considers that good examples of ethical codes, such as the UNICEF-funded ECPAT code on the sexual
exploitation of children, should be highlighted and recorded;

44. Calls on the Member States, in order to prevent any increase in trafficking and 're-trafficking', to
develop and implement programmes of social inclusion and rehabilitation of women and children who
have been the victims of trafficking in the past in association with authorised institutions and associations
and to envisage setting up a European reintegration fund; urges the Member States to develop micro-finan-
cing services in order to make it easier for women to obtain financial support;

45.
Stresses that people who have been subjected to sexual exploitation must be considered victims;
considers that, bearing in mind how immensely difficult it is for them to find a way out of their situation,
both the European Union and the Member States should take the necessary measures to protect and
support them, such as:

— not sentencing people who have been victims of trafficking,

— medical and psychological care,

— legal advice and the assistance of a competent translator,

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— specific measures to reintegrate women who have been working as prostitutes, etc.;

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— take responsibility for women and children who have been the victims of trafficking within the EU;
such women and children should be offered support, either to return to their country of origin at their
own request, or to make a new start;

46. Calls on the Member States to adopt mandatory, binding provisions relating to the protection of the
victims of trafficking, since such provisions are essential if traffickers are to be prosecuted;

47. Calls on the Member States to sign and ratify the Council of Europe Convention on Action against
Trafficking in Human Beings;

48.
Emphasises the fact that, up to now, a right of residence for victims of trafficking in women after the
traffickers have been tried exists only in Belgium and Italy, and stresses that it would encourage victims to
give statements and help secure the conviction of offenders if such a right of residence were granted in all
the Member States;

49. Urges the Member States to introduce measures enabling special residence authorisation to be
granted in special cases in order to enable foreign victims who are in an irregular situation to escape from
violence, and calls for the implementation of a victim-assistance and victim-integration programme to be
run by social-service departments;

50. Urges all Member States to establish identical codifying provisions in their criminal law, including a
clear legal definition of child trafficking based on internationally agreed standards enshrined in the Palermo
Protocol (1) and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which is intended to prevent child traf-
ficking from being treated as a sub-category of trafficking in human beings;

51.
Stresses the urgent need to develop and implement a special children's rights-based prevention
programme based on co-operation between the countries of origin, transit and destination; and draws
attention to the lack of a coherent EU external policy in third countries where the greatest number of child
victims of trafficking originate;

52. Asks the Commission to submit an adequate legislative proposal on European action to combat child
prostitution and trafficking in human organs and tissue; notes that, even though the anti-trafficking legisla-
tion adopted under the first and third pillars includes specific provisions for their protection, children are
still vulnerable, notably when they are exploited for sexual purposes;

53. Asks the Member States and the Community to ratify the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention
on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography of 25 May
2000, which goes further than the Palermo Protocol, since it includes crimes which are not of a transna-
tional nature and which do not involve criminal organisations, and moreover covers the transfer of human
organs and illegal adoption;

54.
Believes that children should be involved as participants in such a programme and asks Member
States to introduce education programmes for girls and boys to fight discrimination and promote gender
equality;

55. Urges the Commission to ensure that Country and Regional Strategy Papers stress the need for
ensuring birth registration in third countries;

(1) According to the Palermo Protocol, child trafficking is the ‘act of recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or

receipt of a child for the purposes of exploitation either within or outside the country’.

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56. Regrets the lack of measurable added value delivered so far by the existing agencies and organisations
at European level, especially the limited exchange of information between the Member States and Europol,
which is the main European tool for fighting trafficking in human beings under Article 2(2) of the Europol
Convention (1), the EU Treaty, the Presidency Conclusions of the Tampere European Council and the
Hague Programme; further regrets the fact that, among its numerous analyses of specific crimes, Europol
has so far produced only one analytical document in this field;

57.
Stresses that Europol should give greater priority to combating trafficking; considers that Europol's
financial and personnel resources should be used to make work to prevent trafficking more efficient, parti-
cularly trafficking in women and children, and to combat large-scale international organised crime;

Stresses the importance of close cooperation between Europol staff and their international counter-
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parts who are responsible for combating trafficking (with particular regard to exchanging information
concerning criminal networks, trafficking routes and traffickers'
identity) as a means of making legal
proceedings more effective;

59. Calls on the Commission to submit an annual assessment of the actions conducted in each Member
State, including an assessment of the implementation and enforcement of anti-trafficking legislation;

60. Calls on the Commission and Council to ensure that their activities within various international fora
such as the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in
Europe, the Beijing review process, the Stability Pact for Southern Europe and the G8, are coordinated and
coherent;

61. Calls on Member States to implement programmes for local-level cooperation with security services
in regions with the highest unemployment rates, in order to prevent people trafficking;

Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, and to the govern-

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ments and parliaments of the Member States and the accession and candidate countries.

(1) OJ C 316, 27.11.1995, p. 2.

P6_TA(2006)0006

Community external aviation policy

European Parliament resolution on developing the agenda for the Community's external aviation
policy (2005/2084(INI))

The European Parliament,

— having regard to the communication from the Commission, ‘Developing the agenda for the Communi-

ty's external aviation policy’ (COM(2005)0079),

— having regard to the Council Conclusions of 27 June 2005 on developing the agenda for the Commu-

nity's external aviation policy (1),

— having regard to Rule 45 of its Rules of Procedure,

— having regard to the report of the Committee on Transport and Tourism (A6-0403/2005),

(1) OJ C 173, 13.7.2005, p. 1.