Drug trafficking in Europe : trends , strategies and effective responses The following recommendations were made with regard to issue 3 , `` Drug trafficking in Europe : trends , strategies and effective responses '' : ( a ) In response to the current threat posed to the States of both West Africa and Europe by transatlantic cocaine trafficking by well-organized and well-resourced criminal syndicates , Governments should encourage their authorities to contribute to and support the Maritime Analysis and Operations Centre - Narcotics ( MAOC-N ) operational initiative ; ( b ) Owing to the growing use of non-commercial aircraft to traffic drugs using routes from Latin America to West Africa and from North Africa to landing points in Europe , Governments must take immediate steps to strengthen cooperation between law enforcement authorities and the general aviation sector and to support authorities in gathering the information necessary and implementing the procedures required , in order to enable those authorities to respond more effectively to the growing trafficking threat .