At their Council meeting in Brussels on Monday 4 December, the EU Justice Ministers launched a political debate on the revision of the Victims’ Rights Directive. This revision, proposed in July 2023 (see EUROPE B13221A17), responds to the need to strengthen the rules to better support victims of crime, offering them better access to information, justice and compensation.
The text aims to modernise the 2012 directive, following an evaluation report that highlighted a number of...