Legislation
Voluntary implementation
The EU-GBV survey is not covered by any official EU legislation and the first wave of the data collection in 2020-2023 takes place on a voluntary basis.
The survey implementation at national level takes place in 18 EU countries. These are: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain.
Data from the other EU countries are collected either
- based on an existing national survey, if a comparable survey is available, or
- by a separate data collection by the European Institute for Gender Equality and the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights following Eurostat questionnaire and methodology.
This is done to cover the rest of the Member States and get EU-wide data on gender-based violence, as agreed by the Crime and criminal justice statistics working group.
Concerning non-EU countries, the survey was implemented in the following countries: Iceland, Montenegro, Serbia, North Macedonia and Kosovo*, while Bosnia and Herzegovina and Albania conducted some methodological work.
* This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244/1999 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo Declaration of Independence.