Article 4 Definitions

‘Trafficking in human beings’ shall mean the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs;

The consent of a victim of ‘trafficking in human beings’ to the intended exploitation set forth in subparagraph a of this article shall be irrelevant where any of the means set forth in subparagraph a have been used;

The recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of a child for the purpose of exploitation shall be considered ‘trafficking in human beings’ even if this does not involve any of the means set forth in subparagraph a of this article;

‘Child’ shall mean any person under eighteen years of age;

‘Victim’ shall mean any natural person who is subject to trafficking in human beings as defined in this article.