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6. Conclusions
All in all, the reformed standard definition for drug offences worked very well.
Especially, it was very helpful to explicitly list the items “consumption” and “possession
of small quantities” on the include list in order to get an idea in which
countries these forms of behavior can be included and in which they are excluded,
normally due to the fact that they are not considered an offence. Some countries
were also able to provide limits for the definition of a small quantity (see above,
table E.4).
Although only some countries were able to provide data on aggravated drug
trafficking, still these data are very useful especially with respect to this study,
since we were able to get detailed information on the different aggravating circumstances
for drug trafficking in the responding countries (see tables E.5 and
E.6). As these tables also show, most countries have such aggravating circumstances
according to their law, many even multiple. Still, only few countries seem to
be able to provide separate data for the aggravated cases.