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Defining and Registering Criminal Offences and Measures - Oapen

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Rape <strong>and</strong> Other Sexual <strong>Offences</strong><br />

4.3 Offence definition for sexual abuse of minors (tables D.9.1 <strong>and</strong> D.9.2)<br />

Age of consent ranges from 14 (Albania, Austria, Croatia, Estonia, Germany, Italy,<br />

Lithuania, Portugal, <strong>and</strong> Ukraine) to 18 (Hungary <strong>and</strong> Latvia). Age of consent is 15 in<br />

Czech Republic, Denmark, Greece, Icel<strong>and</strong>, Pol<strong>and</strong>, Slovakia, Sweden, <strong>and</strong> Turkey; 16 in<br />

Finl<strong>and</strong>, Georgia, the Netherl<strong>and</strong>s, Russia, Switzerl<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> Scotl<strong>and</strong>; <strong>and</strong> 17 in Cyprus<br />

<strong>and</strong> Northern Irel<strong>and</strong>. Other countries did not provide an answer. Most countries<br />

could meet the st<strong>and</strong>ard definition of sexual abuse of minors for police statistics,<br />

although 5 countries (Latvia, Pol<strong>and</strong>, Slovakia, Switzerl<strong>and</strong>, <strong>and</strong> Northern Irel<strong>and</strong>)<br />

could not exclude acts considered as rape.

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