Luxembourg-29th Session, January 2018-Sex work / "prostitution"

Para 84) In accordance with the national strategy for the regulation of prostitution launched in June 2016, a national plan of action on prostitution was developed and the Act of 28 February 2018 on Strengthening Measures to Combat the Exploitation of Prostitution, Procuring and Trafficking in Persons for Sexual Purposes came into force, thereby amending the Code of Criminal Procedure and the Criminal Code.15 The Act of 28 February 2018 provides an institutional framework for the Prostitution Platform, which is required to work in close collaboration with the Monitoring Committee on Combating Trafficking in Persons, and makes it a criminal offence to engage the services of a prostitute who is found to be a minor, or of a prostitute in a particularly vulnerable situation or who has been subjected to human trafficking.