Abstract
Directive 2011/36/EU constituted a very important step towards a “holistic” tackling of human trafficking in the European Union, incorporating provisions not only for the criminalisation and prosecution of trafficking, but also for victim protection and crime prevention. Nonetheless, many problems still exist with regard to the content or the implementation of these provisions, which seem to prevent or limit their effective application. Therefore, after presenting the main changes that Directive 2011/36/EU introduced in the institutional framework to address human trafficking, an effort is made in this study both to identify these problems and to present specific proposals for their confrontation in view of the Commission's plans to develop a new post-2016 anti-trafficking Strategy.
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