Annexes to COM(2006)817 - European Police Office (Europol)

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dossier COM(2006)817 - European Police Office (Europol).
document COM(2006)817 EN
date April  6, 2009
ANNEX

List of other forms of serious crime which Europol is competent to deal with in accordance with Article 4(1):

—unlawful drug trafficking,

—illegal money-laundering activities,

—crime connected with nuclear and radioactive substances,

—illegal immigrant smuggling,

—trafficking in human beings,

—motor vehicle crime,

—murder, grievous bodily injury,

—illicit trade in human organs and tissue,

—kidnapping, illegal restraint and hostage taking,

—racism and xenophobia,

—organised robbery,

—illicit trafficking in cultural goods, including antiquities and works of art,

—swindling and fraud,

—racketeering and extortion,

—counterfeiting and product piracy,

—forgery of administrative documents and trafficking therein,

—forgery of money and means of payment,

—computer crime,

—corruption,

—illicit trafficking in arms, ammunition and explosives,

—illicit trafficking in endangered animal species,

—illicit trafficking in endangered plant species and varieties,

—environmental crime,

—illicit trafficking in hormonal substances and other growth promoters.

With regard to the forms of crime listed in Article 4(1) for the purposes of this Decision:

(a)‘crime connected with nuclear and radioactive substances’ means the criminal offences listed in Article 7(1) of the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material, signed at Vienna and New York on 3 March 1980, and relating to the nuclear and/or radioactive materials defined in Article 197 of the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Community and in Council Directive 96/29/Euratom of 13 May 1996 laying down basic safety standards for the protection of the health of workers and the general public against the dangers arising from ionizing radiation (1);

(b)‘illegal immigrant smuggling’ means activities intended deliberately to facilitate, for financial gain, the entry into, residence or employment in the territory of the Member States, contrary to the rules and conditions applicable in the Member States;

(c)‘trafficking in human beings’ means 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, as a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, the production, sale or distribution of child-pornography material, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs;

(d)‘motor vehicle crime’ means the theft or misappropriation of motor vehicles, lorries, semi-trailers, the loads of lorries or semi-trailers, buses, motorcycles, caravans and agricultural vehicles, works vehicles and the spare parts for such vehicles, and the receiving and concealing of such objects;

(e)‘illegal money-laundering activities’ means the criminal offences listed in Article 6(1) to (3) of the Council of Europe Convention on Laundering, Search, Seizure and Confiscation of the Proceeds from Crime, signed in Strasbourg on 8 November 1990;

(f)‘unlawful drug trafficking’ means the criminal offences listed in Article 3(1) of the United Nations Convention of 20 December 1988 against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances and in the provisions amending or replacing that Convention.

The forms of crime referred to in Article 4 and in this Annex shall be assessed by the competent authorities of the Member States in accordance with the law of the Member States to which they belong.


(1) OJ L 159, 29.6.1996, p. 1.