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1. Member States shall take the necessary measures to establish national anti-trafficking coordinators or equivalent mechanisms and to provide them with the adequate resources necessary to effectively carry out their functions. The national anti-trafficking coordinator or the equivalent mechanism shall work with relevant national, regional and local bodies and agencies, particularly law-enforcement authorities, with national referral mechanisms, and with relevant civil society organisations active in this field.

2. The tasks of the national anti-trafficking coordinators or equivalent mechanisms shall include the carrying out of assessments of trends in trafficking in human beings, the measuring of results of anti-trafficking actions, including the gathering of statistics in close cooperation with relevant civil society organisations active in this field, and reporting. The tasks of the national anti-trafficking coordinators or equivalent mechanisms may also include the following:

(a) setting up contingency response plans in order to prevent the threat of trafficking in human beings in the event of major emergencies;

(b) promoting, coordinating and, where appropriate, financing programmes against trafficking.

3. Member States may also establish independent bodies whose role may include monitoring the implementation and impact of anti-trafficking actions, submitting reports on matters requiring special attention of the competent national authorities, and carrying out assessments of root causes and trends in trafficking in human beings. Where such an independent body is established, Member States may assign it one or more of the tasks referred to in paragraph 2.