The Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA) held its 43rd meeting from 28 March to 1 April 2022 (a combination of physical and online meeting).

During the meeting, GRETA adopted final reports on Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Portugal and Norway as part of the third round of evaluation of the Convention. These reports will be sent to the authorities concerned and will subsequently be made public, together with eventual final comments received from the authorities.

GRETA also approved the draft report on Belarus under the second evaluation round and draft reports on Belgium, Luxembourg and Ireland, under the third evaluation round of the Convention. GRETA decided to transmit these draft reports to the national authorities concerned and to ask them to submit their comments within two months. The comments will be taken into account when GRETA draws up its final evaluation reports. GRETA draft reports remain confidential until their final adoption.

In the course of the meeting, GRETA held an exchange of views with the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms Dunia Mijatović.

Another exchange of views was held with Ms Kateryna Levchenko, Ukraine’s Commissioner for Gender Equality Policy, and representatives of anti-trafficking NGOs (La Strada International, La Strada Poland, La Strada Moldova and La Strada Ukraine) about the risks of human trafficking related to the war in Ukraine.

During the meeting, GRETA also discussed the follow-up to the study on online and technology-facilitated trafficking in human beings.