If left unsecured and unprotected, our maritime territory could cause a serious threat to our national security. Some of the risks that we could potentially be facing are—I mentioned it in my introduction—transnational organised crime in networks such as my good friends Ingrid and Marja already mentioned, illicit drugs, migrant smuggling, and human trafficking. This is a very significant threat; the International Labour Organization estimates it reached about $150 billion per year. 