group was formed to work on the bill. On 7 February 2017, the government extended the deadline until September 1. The bill was delivered to Cabinet of Ministers on September 7 with many objections and its development was further extended to 1 June 2018. The changes were preliminarily expected to come in effect on 1 January 2020. One of the proposed directions was to establish prostitution as a profession with taxable income, however this proposal was declined. The law is expected to increase the age limit for both the worker and the client to 25 years. Sex tourism The country is a destination for sex tourism. The capital, Riga, is a common destination for stag parties looking for a "good time". Buy Bye Beauty Buy Bye Beauty is a 2001 documentary film by Swedish director and performance artist Pål Hollender. The film is about the way Latvian sex industry and its being fuelled by businessmen and sex tourists from Sweden visiting Riga. The film was shot in Riga in July 2000. Latvian President Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga called it "political propaganda", Prime Minister Andris Bērziņš suggested that an international criminal case could be started against the film's makers. Hollender claimed that police worked as part-time pimps and there was corruption in the police force generally. He also claimed there were 15,000 - 18,000 prostitutes in Riga. Official figures were, at the time, between 3,000 and 4,000 in the country with 80 percent in Riga. HIV Latvia has one of the highest HIV prevalence rates in the European Union. Sex workers are one of the high risk groups. The EU's BORDERNET estimated a HIV prevalence of 22.2% amongst sex workers in 2016. Sex trafficking Latvia is a source country subjected to sex trafficking, including child trafficking. Latvian women and girls are subjected to sex trafficking in Latvia and other parts of Europe. Government agencies note an increase in child sex trafficking cases over the past few years. Latvian women recruited for brokered marriages in Western Europe, particularly Ireland, are vulnerable to sex trafficking. A research published in 2007 by Riga Christian Street Children Centre concluded that that sexual exploitation of children was an urgent problem in Latvia and that teenager prostitution was one of the most widespread forms of exploitation. Sections 154-1 and 154-2 of its criminal law prohibit all forms of trafficking and prescribe a maximum penalty of up to 15 years