Article 34

1. Member States shall have a system in place for the recording, production and provision of anonymised statistical data on the criminal offences referred to in Articles 3 to 11 of this Directive. 2. The statistical data referred to in paragraph 1 shall, as a minimum, include the following existing data, when available at the central level: the number of criminal offences registered and adjudicated by the Member States; the number of dismissed court cases, including the number of cases dismissed on the grounds of expiry of the limitation period for the criminal offence concerned; the number of non-trial resolutions for cases of the criminal offences referred to in Articles 3 to 11, when such mechanisms exist in a Member State at any stage of the relevant proceedings; the number of natural persons with specification, when available, of the number of public officials and high-level officials that are: prosecuted, convicted, fined; the number of legal persons that are: prosecuted, convicted, fined; the types and levels of penalties imposed for the criminal offences referred to in Articles 3 to 11; the number of pardons related to convictions regarding Articles 3, 4, 5 and 6. 3. Member States shall, on an annual basis and where possible by 1 June, but no later than 31 December, publish, in a machine-readable, easily accessible and comparable format, the statistical data referred to in paragraph 2 for the previous year and inform the Commission thereof.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-09 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.