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[0] UK [1] Legislation [2] EU Directive Human Trafficking The UK Government intends to apply to opt in to the EU Directive on Human Trafficking. On 22 March the Minister for Immigration wrote to the Parliamentary Scrutiny Committees in the House of Commons and the House of Lords, seeking their views. Both Houses have now cleared the Directive from scrutiny, and we will shortly be applying to the European Commission to opt in. If our application is successful, we will work closely with the Commission on implementation. There is some flexibility in how we achieve the aims of the Directive and we will look at the best ways of doing this. Our current assessment is that we would be required to: · widen one existing offence of trafficking for forced labour; · amend existing trafficking offences to confer extra-territorial jurisdiction over UK nationals who commit trafficking offences anywhere in the world; · make mandatory some measures which are currently good practice (for example, appointing special representatives to support child witnesses during police investigations and criminal trials); · set out the rights of victims to assistance and support. [4] 22 March 2011 - ongoing [5] n/a [3] 
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