This report examines how public authorities are currently regulating labour market intermediaries across the Member States, highlighting the effectiveness or otherwise of different registration or licensing schemes.  It also examines activities by social partners aimed at preventing trafficking in human beings for labour exploitation. The report was prepared within the framework of the EU Strategy towards the Eradication of Trafficking in Human Beings 2012-2016 and especially on developing best practices for public authorities to encourage better monitoring and enforcement of regulations deterring trafficking in human beings for the purpose of labour exploitation.