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"en.20120419.5.4-118-000"2
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"Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, by adopting the trafficking directive the European Union has taken an essential step forward in terms of judicial cooperation in criminal matters between the EU Member States for the purposes of fighting all new forms of slavery.
The directive sets out common rules on the definition of a crime and the level of punishment and ensures greater protection for victims and especially children, whom I think are perhaps the most vulnerable category, face greater risks and therefore deserve to be protected by making punishments harsher, including for crimes committed on the web.
As we know, the directive is due to be transposed in 2013, so there is still a year to go. I would, however, like to put a few questions and ask what stage the Member States are at, how cross-border police cooperation is going, what figures have been collected on the subject, and also get some news on the anticipated awareness campaign.
Why am I asking these questions? Because I believe that the Commission ought to monitor the situation in the Member States in some way and support them somehow in the proper and effective transposition of the directive. The reason for this is that the directive is definitely a cutting-edge piece of legislation that we should be proud of, but my worry is that the Member States might be a bit late in reaching the objective or anyway come across problems in implementing it. Accordingly, I think we should be following this process carefully to get the best possible result from our work."@en1
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