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Table DLO-0. Drug law offences
Part (iii) Terminology used in defining drug law offences in Europe
| Country | Terminology: drug law offences | |
|---|---|---|
| Belgium | Police reports or registrations of offences related to illicit drugs. | |
| Bulgaria | Police reports of arrests for drugs and precursors related law offences. | |
| Czech Republic | Persons prosecuted for primary drug related crime according to Penal Code and Drug-related misdemeanours. | |
| Denmark | Police reports of drug offences/cases registered for violation of drug laws. | |
| Germany | Registered cases (based on complaints) of offences against the Narcotic Drug Law. | |
| Estonia | Persons reported for offences against the drug legislation | |
| Ireland | Drug offences where criminal proceedings commenced | |
| Greece | Prosecuted persons by any authority (Police, Coast Guard, Customs, Greek Financial and Economic Crimes Office) for any drug law offence. | |
| Spain | Initial reports of arrests submitted by National Police Corps, Civil Guard and Customs in case of dealing/trafficking (criminal offences) and reports in case of possession/use in public places (administrative offences). | |
| France | Police reports of Infractions and drug law offences. | |
| Italy | Reports of drug law offences: persons referred to the Judicial Authority (criminal offences) and persons referred to the Prefect of the police force (administrative offences). | |
| Cyprus | Police reports of official charges against the drug legislation. | |
| Latvia | Reports of criminal procedures and administrative violations for drug law offences. | |
| Lithuania | Police reports of investigated case for drug law offences. | |
| Luxembourg | Reports of presumed offences against the 1973 drug law. | |
| Hungary | Charges for indictable drug law offences (i.e. cases of drug abuse reported by police and prosecutors at the end of criminal investigations). | |
| Malta | Police reports of persons arrested for drug law offences. | |
| Netherlands | Offences against the Opium Act considered in need of Prosecution Department. | |
| Austria | Police reports for violations of the Narcotic Substances Act. | |
| Poland | Police reports of offences against Drug Law 2005. | |
| Portugal | Presumed offenders questioned by the police for drug-related offences (criminal offences) and suspected drug users referred to the Commission for the Dissuasion of Drug Use (CDT) (administrative offences). | |
| Romania | Reports of convicted persons under/against national drug legislation (Law no.143/2000). | |
| Slovenia | Presumed offences against drug legislations. | |
| Slovakia | Reports of convicted offenders; persons charged for drug law offences. | |
| Finland | Reports of offences against the Penal Code and Persons suspected of offences under the Penal Code. | |
| Sweden | Total number of reported drug offences. | |
| United Kingdom | Persons found guilty, cautioned, given a fiscal fine or dealt with by compounding for drug law offences. | |
| Croatia | Police reports, before charges, of criminal drug law offences against Criminal Code, Article 173. | |
| Turkey | Offences brought up by the main law enforcement authorities (police, Gendarmerie, customs) for drug law offences. | |
| Norway | Police reports of offences against General Civil Penal Code and Act on Medicinal Products. |