These Regulations give effect to Directive 2000/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8th June 2000 on certain legal aspects of information society services, in particular electronic commerce, in the Internal Market (Directive on electronic commerce) (“the Directive”) in relation to the offence of trafficking people for sexual exploitation contained in section 59A of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 and the offence of trafficking people for labour and other exploitation in section 4 of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004 (“trafficking offences”), following amendments made by the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012.