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For any question on data and metadata, please contact: Eurostat user support |
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1.1. Contact organisation | European Commission - Eurostat |
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1.2. Contact organisation unit | F4: Income and living conditions; Quality of life |
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1.5. Contact mail address | 5 Rue Alphonse Weicker L-2721 Luxembourg |
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2.1. Metadata last certified | 22/04/2024 | ||
2.2. Metadata last posted | 22/04/2024 | ||
2.3. Metadata last update | 22/04/2024 |
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3.1. Data description | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The figures are related to offenders connected to the criminal offence of migrant smuggling as defined under Article 1 of the Directive 2002/90/EC. They are available at country level for European Union Member States, EFTA countries, and EU potential members. The statistics include, from 2016 onwards: |
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Crimes are classified according to the Directive 2002/90/EC. Divergencies with the International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS) are detailed in the metodological guide Monitoring EU crime policies using the International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS). |
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Crime and criminal justice |
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CRIME DEFINITION Migrant Smuggling crime definition is provided in the EU Directive 2002/90/EC as:
Information on the compliance with the definition of the two categories and reference to national legal provisions are provided in the table below.
Information or explanation about provided data or about missing data are provided below. Facilitation of unauthorised entry or transit as defined in Directive 2002/90/EC BG: Whoever takes across the border of the country individuals or groups of people without permit of the respective bodies of the authority or, though by a permit but not at the places determined for that purpose, shall be punished by improsonment of one to six years and a fine of five hunderd to twenty thousand levs. (2) The penalty shall be imprisonment of one to ten yaers, a fine of ten thousand to thirty tousand levs and a confiscation of a part or the whole property of the perpetrator if: 1. a person who has not accomplished 16 years of age has been taken across the border; 2. the transfer has taken place without the consent of the person; 3. the person transferred across the border is not a Bulgarian citizen; 4. motor, air or other vehicles has been used; 5. the transfer has been organised by a group or organisation; 6. the transfer was carried out in a way, which was dangerous to the life of the transferred persons. (3) The penalty shall be imprisonment of three to twelve years, a fine of ten thousand to thirty thousand levs and a confiscation of part or the entire property of the perpetrator, where the act was committed with the participation of an official, who took advantage of his official capacity. (4) In the case of para 2, item 4 the vehicle shall be seized in favour of the state if it has been owned by the perpetrator or was voluntarily provided to him. ME: Data is available for just total. AL: Assistance for illegal crossing of the state borders
Facilitation of unauthorised residence as defined in Directive 2002/90/EC BG: Whoever, with the purpose of obtaining for himself or for somebody else property benefit, illegally assists a foreigner to reside or move into the country contrary to the law, shall be punished by imprisonment of up to five years and a fine from three thousand to ten thousand levs. (2) The penalty shall be imprisonment of one to six years and a fine of five thousand to twenty thousand levs, where the act was: SI: Not a separate criminal offence. It is included in the criminal offence regarding Facilitation of unauthorised entry or transit. ME: Data is available for just total.
COUNTING UNITS DEFINITION
"Suspected" means persons brought in formal contact with the police/criminal justice system, including suspected, arrested or cautioned for a crime. Comments by countries on Suspects definition BE: Registered in National General Database (Police) SK: Art. 199 Act No 301/2005 Criminal Procedure
“Convicted” means found guilty in court (legal body authorized to pronounce a conviction under national criminal law), whether or not the conviction was later upheld. Comments by countries on Convicted definition BG: Provided data are according to articles 280 and 281 of the CC. Data cover persons convicted with final decisions came into force during the calendar year. Provided data in the questionnaire are according to the Art. 280 - Refers to the persons who takes across the border individuals or groups of persons without permission of the competent authorities, or with permission but not through the points designated (only transfer across the state border, without facilitation of transit, residence etc.); and Art. 281, of the CC, which refers to persons, who unlawfully assist or facilitate foreigners to reside in the country or go across the country for benefits in violation of the law.
“Imprisoned” means convicted for crime and held in prison, penal institution or correctional institution; excluding people held for example pending investigation of immigration status or right to stay, and pre-conviction detention. Comments by countries on Imprisoned definition BG: Provided data are according to articles 280 and 281 of the CC. HR: Criminal Procedure Act; Act on Execution of Imprisonment Penalty. The Prison Administration was not in position to deliver data on persons imprisoned for this item, because for the time being they cannot disaggregate data in the enough detailed manner. IT: All prisoners are included, even those awaiting trial at first instance or not definitively convicted. Pre-conviction detention is not excluded
Suspected/Convicted/Imprisoned persons by sex Data on suspected, convicted and imprisoned persons for migrant smuggling is collected on the total number of female and male persons. The categories ‘Other, unregistered, unknown’ is also provided in the data collection but is not disseminated. Due to this, the sum of males and females may differ from the total number of persons.
Suspected by Citizenship Countries are requested to list all the countries of citizenship of the suspected smugglers (by crime (facilitation of unauthorised entry or transit, facilitation of unauthorised residence, unspecified crime)) based on information in their passport or in other identity documents as recorded by the police. Countries should provide the total number of suspected smugglers per country per year in absolute numbers (not percentages). To avoid double counting, it is advisable to count only one citizenship per suspected smuggler. Data protection laws should be complied with. Stateless, Refugee, Unknown but in the EU, Unknown but outside the EU and Unknown categories are also available. Disseminated data are further aggregated in:
The sum of suspected smugglers belonging to the three disseminated categories of citizenship may differ from the total number of suspected smugglers due to unknown citizenship for some of them.
More details on methodological rules are available in explanatory text (metadata) Crime and Criminal Justice (crim) on section 10.6 Documentation on Methodology. |
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The statistical units are persons, depending on the type of statistics: suspected, convicted, imprisoned. |
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For administrative data, the statistical population for each statistic is the complete register (all the relevant records). |
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European Union Member States, EFTA, potential EU Members. Certain territories are excluded and more details are provided on 3.7 Reference area in Crime and criminal justice (crim) metadata. |
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The current tables are available from 2016 onwards. |
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The standard reference period is the calendar year. |
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6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements | |||
The Directive 2002/90/EC provide the definition of smuggling of migrants. Obligation for data collection “to include migrant smuggling data within the regular Eurostat collection of crimes” is provided in the EU Action Plan against migrant smuggling (2015 - 2020), and is renewed in the EU action plan against migrant smuggling (2021-2025) that states that “Member States should enhance the quality and availability of data that is provided to the statistical office of the European Union (Eurostat)”. |
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6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing | |||
Data are shared with DG HOME - Migration and Home Affairs |
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7.1. Confidentiality - policy | |||
Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics(recital 24 and Article 20(4)) of 11 March 2009 (OJ L 87, p. 164), stipulates the need to establish common principles and guidelines ensuring the confidentiality of data used for the production of European statistics and the access to those confidential data with due account for technical developments and the requirements of users in a democratic society. |
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7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment | |||
Decisions regarding disclosure risk and the selection and implementation of disclosure control methods rest with the national data suppliers. |
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8.1. Release calendar | |||
In general, data are released within 16 months after the reference year. |
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8.2. Release calendar access | |||
8.3. Release policy - user access | |||
In line with the Community legal framework and the European Statistics Code of Practice, Eurostat disseminates European statistics on Eurostat's website (see item 10 - 'Accessibility and clarity') respecting professional independence and in an objective, professional and transparent manner in which all users are treated equitably. The detailed arrangements are governed by the Eurostat protocol on impartial access to Eurostat data for users. |
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10.1. Dissemination format - News release | |||
Ad hoc news releases on-line. |
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10.2. Dissemination format - Publications | |||
Crime Publication section https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/crime/publications |
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10.3. Dissemination format - online database | |||
Tables are available on-line in Eurostat webpage Crime Database and are updated annually. |
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10.4. Dissemination format - microdata access | |||
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10.5. Dissemination format - other | |||
Not applicable. |
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10.6. Documentation on methodology | |||
Each country determines the data production and is responsible for its documentation. Data are produced by official authorities such as Police, Prosecution, Court Administration, Ministry of the Interior and Ministry of Justice. Each country determines which authority or statistical office should collect, check and send data and documentation.
EUROSTAT methodological guidance 2024 for more details on counting rules can be found at:
More details (as listed below) in methodological rules are available in metadata Crime and Criminal Justice (crim) 10.6 Documentation on methodology section:
A paragraph in the document Monitoring EU crime policies using the International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS) provides an insight on correspondance between the EU Directive and the ICCS classification. |
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10.7. Quality management - documentation | |||
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11.1. Quality assurance | |||
Data are provided to Eurostat by a contact designated by each country. Notably, this contact can be another authority than the national statistical office. Each country determine its own procedures for gathering data from several different authorities (see item 18.1 Source data). |
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11.2. Quality management - assessment | |||
No assessment has been made. |
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12.1. Relevance - User Needs | |||
The need to provide information on migrant smuggling in the European Union is based on the Directive 2002/90/EC. The renewed EU action plan against migrant smuggling (2021-2025) stressed that ‘To improve the knowledge base of its implementation, Member States should enhance the quality and availability of data that is provided to the statistical offices of the European Union (Eurostat)’. |
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12.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction | |||
No user satisfaction survey has been done. |
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12.3. Completeness | |||
Data is missing for some countries, for some years, in nearly all tables, for all types of statistics. The table below shows the number of countries for which data are disseminated for each indicator: |
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13.1. Accuracy - overall | |||
Principally, administrative crime statistics indicates the registration and handling of cases by authorities such as Police, Prosecution and Courts. Relative to the administrative data used, the accuracy is largely unknown. |
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13.2. Sampling error | |||
Not applicable - data are from administrative records. |
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13.3. Non-sampling error | |||
Data from administrative records are likely to contain some random errors (mistakes) as well as systematic errors (bias). |
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14.1. Timeliness | |||
The data for the reference year Y are requested to be provided by the 15th September of year Y+1. After the validation checks have been applied to the data, the countries are consulted again to revise any inconsistencies or to provide additional reference metadata. |
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14.2. Punctuality | |||
Following data validation, the data are published on the Eurostat website, within 16 months of the reference year. |
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15.1. Comparability - geographical | |||
Comparability in crime statistics is affected by many factors, such as differences in: Legal system and criminal justice system |
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15.2. Comparability - over time | |||
See the list of factors in 15.1. Changes in any of the factors can affect the comparability over time. |
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15.3. Coherence - cross domain | |||
Coherence with ICCS080051 'Smuggling of migrants' crime collected through the UN-CTS Crime Trends Survey questionnaire is taken into account in the validation process. |
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15.4. Coherence - internal | |||
The internal coherence of the data is checked with basic validation rules (see section 18.4. Data validation). |
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Not estimated. |
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17.1. Data revision - policy | |||
To further specify the general Eurostat revision policy, the following revision policy has been established for the crime domain. Revisions to the data are possible at any time, but only based on new data received from national contact. |
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17.2. Data revision - practice | |||
The revision practice effectively corresponds to the revision practice of the domain listed under sub concept 17.1 (data revision – policy). All reported errors (once validated) result in corrections of the disseminated data. Reported errors are corrected in the disseminated data as soon as the correct data have been validated. |
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There are several different data producing sources, such as Police, Prosecution, Courts, Ministry of the Interior and Ministry of Justice. The source data type is records in administrative registers. As for suspects, the main data source, reference to national legal provisions, and information on data provided or missing data are provided in the table below:
As for convicted, the main data source, reference to national legal provisions, and information on data provided or missing data are provided in the table below:
As for imprisoned, the main data source, reference to national legal provisions, and information on data provided or missing data are provided in the table below:
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Eurostat forward a questionnaire to EU Member States, EFTA countries and EU potential members. In each country, figures from different authorities are collected into one file. The files are sent to Eurostat by a common procedure, the Electronic Data File Administration and Management Information System (EDAMIS). |
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The data are checked for completeness, internal consistency, and consistency over time and coherence with other relevant data sources. For internal consistency the following are checked: - Consistency between the the number of suspected and the number of offences - Total empty tables, use of 0 and notes Any issue revealed by the checking is pointed out to the national contact, by email. The national contact may either confirm the validity of data or send new data. No editing, estimation, imputation, weighting, seasonal adjustment, or other statistical modifications are carried out by Eurostat. |
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