On Monday 27 May, the EU Council definitively adopted the Directive on the criminalisation of human trafficking, which adds the exploitation of surrogate motherhood, forced marriage and illegal adoption to the forms of exploitation covered by the legislation, according to a press release (see EUROPE B13397A14).
“As in the current directive, the new types of exploitation will be punishable by a maximum penalty of at least five years’ imprisonment or at least ten years’ imprisonment in...