The conference was organised by the International Centre for Migration Policy and Development (ICMPD).
Participants concluded that a multidisciplinary approach should be applied in drafting national programmes for the prevention of human trafficking. The countries in the region were recommended to draft said programmes at specially organised workshops and to engage nongovernmental organisations in the process.
Croatia presented its achievements in the field, the drafting of its national programme, activities to be undertaken in the next six months, and the publication of statistics on the web page of the government Office for Human Rights.
The conclusions from the conference are mostly based on Croatia's experience and recommendations given that it is the only country in the region to have set up an effective system in this field, it was said.
The conclusions recommend that every country create a web page so that information about the work of institutions on the local and national levels could be available to everyone.
"Croatia is the example of a country which has achieved the most. It has developed a successful model of presenting statistics about victims of human trafficking and their protection," said ICMPD chairman Borna Krempler.
The chief of the government Office for Human Rights, Luka Madjeric, said the Vienna conference was an important step in improving cooperation and establishing standards in the prevention of human trafficking.
The conference was attended by representatives of Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Slovenia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Kosovo.