Data Collection at the EU levelConference Sharing Best Practices in Harmonised Data Collection on Trafficking in Human Beings

26 March 2013, Bratislava, Slovakia

Directive 2011/36/EUTo be transposed by MS by 6th April 2013 (Article 22 Directive)Meanwhile the Commission launched the Informal Contact Group on the Directive to create a platform for informal discussions with Member States3 meetings in 2012 and 2013: 24 April 2012, 22 October 2012 and 31 January 2013

PRIORITY A: Identifying, protecting and assisting victims of trafficking

Action 4: Information on all the Rights of Victims: need to provide clear, user-friendly, complete and consistent information

COM will present overview of rights under EU law in AprilMS should work on similar overview of rights at national level

EU Strategy towards Eradication of Trafficking in Human Beings

EU Civil Society Platform on THBAction based on the EU StrategyCivil society organisations working on THB are invited to attend a first meeting of the Platform which is scheduled for 31 MayCall for interest was published on 7 March and deadline for applications is 3 April 2013, 17:00pmFirst meeting will gather about 100 civil society organisations from all Member States

Data collection: historyThe need to develop statistics on crime and criminal justice has long been recognised by the EU and its MS:'Developing a comprehensive and coherent strategy to measure crime and criminal justice' (2006): priority areas money laundering and THBDirective 2011/36/EU'Measuring crimes in the EU' (2012)EU Strategy and Council Conclusions (2012)

Background / proceduresJune 2011: DG HOME presented the list of indicators to the WG of EurostatSeptember 2011: Eurostat launched the data collectionParticipants: EU MS, Candidate and Potential Candidate, EFTA/EEA countriesReference period: 2008, 2009 and 2010Document attached: Guidelines, Template excel file, List of national rapporteurs or equivalent mechanisms, Template metadata and Eurostat Country codes

Background / proceduresOctober 2011: Deadlines for repliesDecember 2011: 19 MS provided dataJanuary May 2012: most countries provided some dataJuly 2012: queries and tables sent to countries for validation

Background / procedures July September 2012: countries provided additional data and/or made substantial changes to the data previously providedSeptember October 2012: revision of the tables for publicationPublication planned for April 2013.

Indicators (1)Information on victims (identified and presumed)

1.1 victims by registering organisation (by gender and age)1.2 victims by form of exploitation (by gender)1.3 victims by citizenship (top 10 countries)1.4 victims by country of recruitment (top 10 countries)1.5 victims by assistance and protection: received assistance, reflection period and residence permit (by gender)

Indicators (2)2. Police data on suspected traffickers

2.1 suspected traffickers by citizenship (top 10, by gender)2.2 suspected traffickers by form of exploitation2.3 suspected traffickers involved in organised crime

Indicators (3)3. data on prosecuted traffickers

3.1 prosecuted traffickers by citizenship (top 10, by gender)3.2 prosecuted traffickers by form of exploitation3.3 final decisions by the prosecution services (for THB)

Indicators (4)4. Court data on convicted traffickers

4.1 of convicted traffickers (by gender)4.2 of convicted traffickers by form of exploitation

Replies (general overview)All EU MS replied, but not all MS provided data for all indicators for the three reference yearsParticipating non EU countries: Croatia, Iceland, Montenegro, Serbia, Switzerland, Norway and TurkeyThe quantity and quality of data increased per reference yearPolice and court data seemed easier to provide than data on victims

challenges on some indicatorsNumber of victims by country of recruitment

Number of convicted traffickers by form of exploitation (13 MS)

Number of suspected traffickers involved in organised crime (8 MS)

Some of the findings (1)Police is principal source of information on identified and presumed victims (19 MS), followed by NGOs (9 MS), immigration (3 MS) and others (10 MS)Total number of identified and presumed victims increased from 6,309 in 2008 to 9,528 in 2010Gender and age of victims: 68% women, 17% men, 12% girls and 3% boysVictims for sexual exploitation 62%, labour exploitation 25% and other 14%.

Some of the findings (2)Majority of victims are from EU MS (61%), Africa 14%, Asia 6% and Central and latin America 5% Non EU victims increased: male victims from 12% in 2008 to 37% in 2010 and female victims from 18 % in 2008 to 39% in 2010Most EU victims are from Romania and BulgariaMost non EU victims are from Nigeria and China

Some of the findings (3)17 % decrease of suspected traffickers from 2008-201073 % of suspected traffickers are maleOver the 3 years, 85 % suspected traffickers for sexual exploitation, 12 % for labour exploitation and 3 % others.Number of convictions decreased from 1,534 in 2008 to 1,339 in 2010.

FutureContinued Commission funding for projects on improving collection of data in MSEU Strategy: develop an EU-wide system for the collection and publication of data broken down according to age and genderfollow-up initiative covering the years 2011 and 2012, results expected in 2014

Thank you for your attention

www.ec.europa.eu/anti-trafficking/

Gert.bogers@ec.europa.eu

In terms of funding opportunities*Composed of experts tasked to advise the Commission, taking into account the developments in the EU's efforts to eradicate trafficking.

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