Article 34 — Data collection and statistics

1. Member States shall have a system in place for the recording, production and provision of anonymised statistical data on the criminal offences referred to in Articles 3 to 11 of this Directive. 2. The statistical data referred to in paragraph 1 shall, as a minimum, include the following existing data, when available at the central level: (a) the number of criminal offences registered and adjudicated by the Member States; (b) the number of dismissed court cases, including the number of cases dismissed on the grounds of expiry of the limitation period for the criminal offence concerned; (c) the number of non-trial resolutions for cases of the criminal offences referred to in Articles 3 to 11, when such mechanisms exist in a Member State at any stage of the relevant proceedings; (d) the number of natural persons with specification, when available, of the number of public officials and high-level officials that are: (i) prosecuted, (ii) convicted, (iii) fined; (e) the number of legal persons that are: (i) prosecuted, (ii) convicted, (iii) fined; (f) the types and levels of penalties imposed for the criminal offences referred to in Articles 3 to 11; (g) the number of pardons related to convictions regarding Articles 3, 4, 5 and 6. 3. Member States shall, on an annual basis and where possible by 1 June, but no later than 31 December, publish, in a machine-readable, easily accessible and comparable format, the statistical data referred to in paragraph 2 for the previous year and inform the Commission thereof.