Legal Definitions in the EU Member States

A person’s actions against the other person’s will to satisfy the former person’s sexual desires through anal, oral or interfemoral intercourse by using physical violence or by threatening the immediate use thereof or by otherwise depriving the victim of a possibility of resistance or by taking advantage of the helpless state of the victim.

A person who, in seeking sexual contact or satisfaction, harasses a person subordinate to him in office or otherwise by vulgar or comparable actions or by making offers or hints shall be considered to have committed a misdemeanour and shall be punished by a fine or by restriction of liberty or by arrest.

According to Article 1 of the Law on Equal Opportunities of Women and Men, sexual harassment is defined as offensive verbal or physical, conduct of sexual nature, towards a person with whom there are work, business or other relations of subordination. There is a general definition of harassment in the same law that unwanted conduct related to the sex of a person that occurs with the purpose or effect of violating the dignity of a person, and of creating an intimidating, hostile, humiliating or offensive environment.

A person who threatens to murder a person or cause a severe health impairment to him, where there is a sufficient basis for believing that the threat may be fulfilled shall be punished by community service or by a fine or by restriction of liberty or by arrest or by imprisonment for a term of up to two year. Any person who terrorises a person by threatening to blow him up, to set him on fire or to commit another act dangerous to his life, health or property or who systematically intimidates the person by using mental coercionshall be punished by imprisonment for a term of up to four years

Any act of sexual penetration, of whatever nature, by any means whatsoever, committed on a person who does not consent, including using violence or serious threats by ruse or artifice, or abusing a person incapable of giving consent or free to oppose resistance, constitutes rape and shall be punished by imprisonment of five to ten years.

Luxembourg uses the term "indecent assault": any indecent assault committed without violence or threats of persons of either sex shall be punished by imprisonment from one month to two years and a fine of 251 to 10,000 euros.

Constitutes sexual harassment at the time of labour relations under this chapter: any behaviour of a sexual nature or other conduct based on sex which one who is guilty of it knows or should know that it affects the dignity of a person, when the following conditions are met: 1) the behaviour is unwanted, unwanted, unreasonable and offensive to the person who is the subject;2) the fact that a person refuses or accepts such behaviour on the part of the employer, an employee, customer or supplier is used explicitly or implicitly as a basis for a decision affecting the rights of the person in vocational training, employment, job retention, promotion, salary or any other employment decision and 3) such conduct creates an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive to the person who is the subject.

Whoever repeatedly harassed a person when he knew or should have known that by this behaviour seriously affect the tranquillity of the person, shall be punished with imprisonment of fifteen days to two years and a fine of 251 to 3,000 euros, or one of these penalties.

In Malta, "domestic violence" means: any act of violence, even if only verbal, perpetrated by a household member upon another household member and includes any omission which causes physical or moral harm to the other.

Whosoever shall, by violence, have carnal knowledge of a person of either sex, shall, on conviction, be liable to imprisonment for a term from three to nine years, with or without solitary confinement.

Whosoever shall be guilty of any violent indecent assault which does not, in itself, constitute any of the crimes, either completed or attempted, referred to in the preceding articles of this subtitle, shall, on conviction, be liable to imprisonment for a term from three months to one year.