The EU has put emphasis on trafficking by including it in Europol's mandate (trafficking is defined in the Europol Convention) and through the Commission's signing of the above mentioned UN Protocol to Suppress Trafficking in 2000 on behalf of all the Member States. As the protocol specifies contracting parties should make trafficking a criminal offense in its own right, the above table will soon be outdated. The UK (.pdf) is currently considering new anti-trafficking legislation.