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"Mr President, this is a very important report and a significant step forward. Like the rest of the House, I should like to congratulate the rapporteur on her report. It is through working together at EU and international level that we can do something important for children, who must be protected from such crimes.
I fully endorse the proposal that depictions of persons under the age of 18 involved in sexually explicit conduct constitute the sexual exploitation of children. In my view this is compatible with the Convention of the Rights of the Child. The sexual exploitation of children, including child pornography on the Internet, in any form, is abhorrent.
As the Commission points out, tens of thousands of human beings – especially women and children – are trafficked for exploitative purposes each year. None of our countries can claim to be free of these threats. None of our countries can halt these acts on their own. None of our countries should hesitate about signing up to closer cooperation in the fight against such crimes.
The European Union has not been ignoring this worrying phenomenon. We have spoken about it many times in Parliament: in 1997 the Council joint action to combat trafficking in human beings and the sexual exploitation of children paved the way for Member States to review the relevant criminal law so as to ensure the criminalisation of certain behaviours and to encourage judicial cooperation.
The new proposal brings us a further step forward by hopefully ensuring that each Member State will take the necessary measures to guarantee that facilitating or in any way profiting from child prostitution or child pornography is penalised, including by terms of imprisonment of not less than four years.
Furthermore, we are calling on each Member State to ensure that convictions for such crimes are subject to the tracing, seizure and confiscation of all moveable and immovable assets representing the proceeds of those crimes.
Finally, I fully support the compromise agreement reached by our committee on Article 5(4). The maximum penalty of not less than eight years should apply in the case of child pornography and aiding and abetting such crimes, including the exploitation of children, when they involve a child below the age of 16."@en1
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