Publication: Magyar Közlöny
Issue: MK-2006-149 (Year: 2006, Number: 149)
Era: 2004-2010
Section: 
Paragraph Index: 515

3. The of fences es tab lished in ac cor dance with ar ti cle 5 of this Pro tocol shall be re garded as of fences es tablished in accordance with the Convention. Article 2 Statement of purpose The pur poses of this Protocol are: (a) To pre vent and combat trafficking in per sons, pay ing par tic u lar at ten tion to women and chil dren; (b) To pro tect and assist the vic tims of such trafficking, with full re spect for their hu man rights; and (c) To pro mote co op er a tion among States Par ties in order to meet those ob jectives. Article 3 Use of terms For the purposes of this Protocol: (a) „Trafficking in persons” shall mean the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs; (b) The consent of a victim of trafficking in persons to the intended exploitation set forth in subparagraph (a) of this article shall be irrelevant where any of the means set forth in subparagraph (a) have been used; (c) The recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of a child for the purpose of exploitation shall be considered „trafficking in persons” even if this does not involve any of the means set forth in subparagraph (a) of this article; (d) „Child” shall mean any person under eighteen years of age. Article 4 Scope of application This Protocol shall apply, except as otherwise stated herein, to the prevention, investigation and prosecution of the offences established in accordance with article 5 of this Protocol, where those offences are transnational in nature and involve an organized criminal group, as well as to the protection of victims of such offences. Article 5 Criminalization

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