News item | 26-09-2025 | 15:45
The Council of Ministers has agreed that the bill that implemented the revised European Directive on human trafficking is submitted to the House of Representatives to be treated there. This bill complements the bill for modernization and expansion of the criminalization of human trafficking, currently at the Senate.
Minister Van Oosten of Justice and Security: “Human trafficking is increasingly coming in forms other than sexual exploitation or labor exploitation. It is important that we expand the law so that it applies broader and we can effectively combat human trafficking.”
The implementation of the revised European Directive on human trafficking leads to a number of adjustments in the human trafficking legislation. In this way the list of forms of exploitation is extended, added to this: surrogacy, exploitation of forced marriages and exploitation of illegal adoption. These forms of exploitation are already covered by the law, but are made explicit with this change.
The reach of the Criminal Act is also being expanded: the deliberate use of sexual services of a victim of human trafficking was already punishable, the deliberate use of non-sexual services of a victim of human trafficking is added.