By Paul O’Donoghue
The exploitation of surrogacy, forced marriage and illegal adoption have been formally classified as forms of exploitation covered by the EU’s anti-trafficking law.
In a statement, the Council of the European Union said that the changes mean that knowingly using the service provided by one of the newly-defined trafficking victims will now “become a criminal offence that is punishable by effective, proportionate and dissuasive penalties”.
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