Hello, Mrs. Ambler. It's also very much a pleasure for me to see you there. I hope we will see you in the next session in Strasbourg.
About your question on the German case, let me tell you the following. In Germany it's estimated that they have about 400,000 prostitutes working and one million clients a day. These are the estimations. Of course, there is no data that we can be assured that those are the right figures, but one figure is correct. It is that only 44 sex workers are covered by social insurance. That means that they are registered on the official social insurance.
So you see the difference is that according to the law, they should be covered with a lot of health assistance, with social security assistance, to be treated as a business as any others. But the reality is totally different.
The problem in Germany, or one of the problems, is that the regulations should depend on each Länder, so every Länder in every municipality deals with the problem of prostitution with only one concern, which is where they put that activity to make no social effects on the community. Let's say they are choosing the best place where they cannot see, where they cannot hear what's going on there. This is one of the problems, and that also affects the collection of data.
But in reality—and this is also from that study and the research I mentioned some moments ago—it's also proven there that the situation of sex workers decreased in quality, in assistance, in all ways after the legalization. So it was totally the opposite, and the result is that there are 44 female sex workers who are registered on the official social security in Germany.