OJ C , Avis juridique important. Emphasizes that the European Union's action to combat the sexual exploitation of children must not only make full use of all Community instruments at its disposal but also stimulate coordination at Community level of the national measures that are urgently required to fight this scourge;. Calls on the Member States to take rapid action to harmonize certain concepts in their criminal legislation in particular, the age up to which individuals may be deemed to be children with regard to sexual exploitation and to classify as criminal offences:. Calls on the Member States to adopt provisions which prohibit persons who have been found guilty of paedophile activities from pursuing activities which would bring them into contact with minors;. Calls on the Member States to adopt legislation whereby penalties include medical and social therapy designed to prevent sexual offenders from reoffending, to ensure that, in the absence of a positive psycho-social or medical prognosis, those who reoffend receive long-term custodial sentences or are permanently committed to psychiatric institutions;. Urges the Member States to enact legislation to abolish the requirement of double incrimination for sexual offences against minors; in other words, there should be no requirement that the crime be punishable in the place where it was committed in order for a prosecution to be brought;. Calls on the Member States to set up appropriate databases at national level, while ensuring data protection, concerning persons found guilty of paedophile activities, to ensure effective protection of minors;.


With this communication, the European Union aims to step up its action to combat the abuse and sexual exploitation of children. The expansion of tourism over the past half-century has more recently been accompanied by an increase in child sex tourism. The World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, held in Stockholm in August , provided an opportunity to define this phenomenon more clearly.
Pathologic evidence supports unique sex-specific mechanisms as precursors for acute cardiovascular CV events. Current evidence on long-term CV risk among women when compared with men based on measures of coronary artery calcium CAC remains incomplete. Pooled cohort equation PCE risk scores and risk factor data were collected with the Agatston score and other CAC measures number of lesions and vessels, lesion size, volume, and plaque density. Sex interactions were calculated. Women and men had average PCE risk scores of 5. Cardiovascular mortality was higher among women with more extensive, numerous, or larger CAC lesions. The relative hazard for cardiovascular disease CVD mortality for women and men was 8.
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