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2. Executive summaryUpdate to the report: new legislation on the trafficking of persons and thesmuggling of migrantsThe law extant at the time of designing the project, collecting the data, and writingthe first draft of this final report has been recently modified to conform withinternational and European standards. Law no. 228 of 11 August 2003 “Misurecontro la tratta di persone” (published in Gazzetta Ufficiale no. 195 23 August2003), has profoundly innovated the previous criminal legislation, from both thesubstantial and procedural points of view, and reorganised the jurisdictions of theresponsible offices. Given the importance of those innovations, the report has beenupdated to include the most important new provisions introduced by the recentlegislation. However, it should be stressed that the data and information collectedby the survey instrument and the interviews with the prosecutors refer to a periodof time when the new law was not yet in force. The results obtained from themonitoring process, with the help of the prosecutors interviewed, must be thusconsidered in the light of the legislation existing at that time, although some of thesuggestions de iure condendo proposed by the prosecutors have already beenimplemented by the new law.21