Just prior to the parliamentary summer recess, the Danish Government succeeded in passing a bill on human trafficking (L 118). The bill added human trafficking as an offence to the Danish penal code, thus improving the possibility of prosecuting backers by, for instance, allowing the police easier access to break the confidentiality of communication. See the paragraph below.

Section 262 a.
(1) Any person who recruits, transports, transfers, harbours or subsequently receives a person by means, whether present or past, of 
   (i) unlawful coercion pursuant to section 260;
   (ii) deprivation of liberty pursuant to section 261;
   (iii) threats pursuant to section 266;
   (iv) the unlawful creation, confirmation or exploitation of a mistake; or
   (v) any other undue method,
for the purpose of exploitation of that person by sexual immorality, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, or the removal of organs, shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding 8 years for trafficking in persons.

(2) The same penalty shall apply to any person who, for the purpose of exploitation of the victim by sexual immorality, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery,
   (i) recruits, transports, transfers, harbours or subsequently receives a person under 18; or
   (ii) gives payment or other benefit to achieve the consent to such exploitation from a person having control over the victim, and to the person receiving such payment or benefit.