 Prosecutors will refrain from pressing charges if this Groningen Protocol is followed.In 2016 the number of official cases of euthanasia in the Netherlands was 6,091 which was 4 % of total deaths in the Netherlands.In 2010, the number had been 4,050, and according to research done by the Vrije Universiteit, University Medical Center Utrecht and Statistics Netherlands, and published in "The Lancet", that was not more than before the "Termination of Life on Request and Assisted Suicide (Review Procedures) Act" took effect in 2002; and the study concluded that In effect, the legislation did not lead to more cases of euthanasia and assisted suicide on request.