The state reports from Belgium and Spain were received by GREVIO on 18 February 2019, and are published today in accordance with Rule 33, paragraph 6 of GREVIO’s Rules of Procedure.

The Group will consider the reports at its 18th meeting scheduled to take place in June 2019 in Strasbourg. GREVIO plans to carry out an evaluation visit to Belgium and Spain in the autumn of 2019 in order to assess the situation on the ground. The Group will then draw up and adopt its evaluation reports in the course of 2020.