Dr. Nusha Yonkova:

On the comment about data, IHREC has been entrusted with the task of gathering data and analysing them. This is what we have been doing since April last year. Our first national report has been published. The data for 2021 were extensively analysed and we obtained data from various State agencies and from NGOs. That additional pool of data held by the NGOs revealed that there is not full overlap between the cases in the national referral mechanism and the cases in the non-governmental organisations' specialist services. Around 40 new victims were captured in the services of the specialist NGOs. Of them, only 30 ended up in the national referral mechanism, which in total had 44 victims last year. This means that some victims are just dropping out of the process or disappearing because they do not consider the assistance offered to victims of trafficking to be sufficient. The extent of human trafficking, which goes beyond those cases captured in the national referral mechanism, is also down to the lack of proactive identification, which has to happen in the sex industry by screening and deploying more targeted labour inspections in the high-risk sectors. For example, it is known that victims of trafficking have contact with medical authorities while they are being trafficked. One report affirms that 80% of victims are in touch with some medical professionals. We would be seeking, outside the general scheme, that human trafficking become a mainstream discipline in all relevant training, including-----