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Table DLO-2. Offence types involved in reports for drug law offences: percentage of all reports for drug law offences

Countries		Year	Use/possession for use (%) (1)	Dealing/trafficking (%) (1)	Use and trafficking (%)
Belgium	(2)	2005	74.8	25.2
Bulgaria	(2)	2005	58.3	17.8	23.9
Czech Republic	(1)	2005	7.8	92.2
Denmark	(2)	2005	85.9	14.1
Germany	(2)	2005	70.3	24.0
Ireland	(2)	2005	73.8	19.1
Greece	(2)	2005	70.0	24.8	5.2
Spain	(2)	2005	91.4	8.6
France	(1)	2004	83,5	6,9	9.6
Italy	(1)	2005	56.4	43.6
Cyprus	(1)	2005	64.9	35.1
Latvia	(2)	2004	79,3	20,7
Luxembourg	(2) (3)	2005	28.4	40.5	31.1
Malta	(1)	2005	81.6	18.4
Netherlands	(2)	2005	30.9	68.8
Austria	(1) (2) (4)	2005	87.8	8.9
Poland	(2)	2005	60.8	36.1
Portugal	(1) (5)	2005	52.9	47.1
Slovenia	(2)	2005	83.4	10.7	5.9
Finland	(2) (6)	2005	61.3	38.7
Sweden	(2)	2005	86.1	13.9
United Kingdom	(2)	2004	86,4	13,6
Turkey	(1)	2005	48.0	52.0
Norway	(2)	2003	40.9	59.1

Notes:

Data were not available for the unlisted EU Member States and Norway.

For definitions of 'reports' for drug law offences, refer to Drug law offences – methods and definitions.

For information on the way percentages were calculated, please refer to the notes below.

Percentages are based on offences of all types and may not sum to 100% (in row).

(1) Based on drug offences considered as main offences.

(2) Based on all drug offences: several different drug offences may be involved in one case.

(3) Calculated on arrests for presumed offences against the 1973 drug law.

(4) The law only distinguishes between small and large quantities. Thus cases of possession and small-scale trafficking have been considered as 'use/possession for use' and cases of possession and trafficking of large quantities as 'dealing/trafficking'.

(5) Since the decriminalisation of drug use/possession for use in July 2001, such offences are reported through a different monitoring system; data presented here come from the latter as well as from the monitoring system recording criminal drug law offences.

(6) Dealing/trafficking offences include both aggravated narcotics offences and other narcotics offences.

Sources:

Reitox national focal points.