The European Union has allocated 50 million euros for the funding of the Daphne programme to combat paedophilia and the sexual abuse of children, adolescents and women for the five-year period 2004-2008. Together with the “framework decision on the campaign against the sexual exploitation of children and child pornography”, adopted by the European Council in December 2003, Daphne (in force since 1997 with an endowment of 20 million euros) constitutes the main tool of the EU strategy that has so far permitted over 300 projects to be realized, 40% of them regarding the prevention and repression of paedophilia. To this should be added the Agis programme, whose subventions concern in particular judicial and police cooperation in curbing the trafficking of human beings and the sexual abuse of children, and the provisions adopted by individual member states in conformity with the framework Decision relating to penal sanctions and assistance to victims and their families.
