between the ATU and the national competent authorities in Ukraine in the spheres of terrorism prevention, investigation and prosecution. Trafficking in Human Beings Following the adoption of the Law on Combating Trafficking in Human Beings and the subsequent subordinate legislation regulating the status of a victim of trafficking in human beings and the state assistance they are entitled to in the framework of the National Referral Mechanism (NRM), the PCU continued to support the NRM multiplication in the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Chernivtsi, Kharkiv, Khmelnitsky, Luhansk and Vinnytsya. Overall, since the launch of the multiplication in these six regions in July 2012, 5,129 social service providers, law enforcement officers, medical practitioners, teachers and media specialists have been reached in the framework of the training programme and other capacity-building project events, and the teams of trainers made up of regional governmental stakeholders have been formed. As a result of the above-mentioned capacity-building efforts and awareness raising activities, as of December 2013, 15 statuses of victims of trafficking in human beings (7 women, 8 men) were granted in the above regions. In the framework of the preparatory work for further NRM roll-out in the new Ukrainian regions, in October-November, the PCU supported two-day introductory NRM seminars for members of co-ordination councils from seven more regions of Ukraine, namely, those of Kirovohrad, Kyiv, Rivne, Sumy, Volyn and Zhytomyr, and the city of Kyiv, reaching over 320 additional NRM stakeholders who learned to identify, refer and provide assistance to victims of trafficking at the local level. To address new challenges related to trafficking in human beings and to help prevent trafficking in children and women, the PCU has been assisting the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights in efforts to enhance national legislation related to the use of reproductive technologies, particularly, surrogate maternity. As an initial step, the PCU facilitated a desk research on international practices of legislative regulation of surrogate maternity. The research findings, translated into Ukrainian, were published in December 2013 and were planned to be distributed among Ukrainian stakeholders dealing with the legislative regulation of the surrogate maternity issue in 2014. In November, the PCU, in co-operation with the Ukrainian Ministry of Social Policy, conducted a roundtable for consular officials and diplomats from 28 OSCE participating States, OSCE Partners for Co-operation and Ukrainian Government representatives to develop greater awareness of the trafficking problem and anti-trafficking efforts, including the role of embassies and consulates in combating this crime. Particular attention was paid to the National Referral Mechanism in Ukraine and to co-operation with the law enforcement authorities, including the specialized anti-trafficking unit in the Ukrainian Ministry of Interior (MoI), the State Migration Service and the State Border Guard Service. The activities of Ukrainian anti-trafficking NGOs were also presented at the event. In its efforts to enhance prosecution of trafficking cases, the PCU, in co-operation with the Ukrainian MoI, the General Prosecutor’s Office, and the High Specialized Court for Civil and Criminal Cases, conducted two regional roundtables in Kyiv and Odessa in May. The roundtables gathered over 130 participants – representatives of the specialized antitrafficking police departments, investigators, prosecutors and judges from all regions of Ukraine – with a view to discuss challenges in the prosecution of various forms of human trafficking. Particular focus was directed to ensuring a co-ordinated and victim-centred approach in prosecuting all forms of human trafficking, including trafficking for labour exploitation, and ways to address new trends, e.g. trafficking for the removal of organs. Special attention was paid to the peculiarities of investigating and prosecuting human trafficking cases under the new Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine. 110