Framework for risk assessment and risk management of intimate partner violence at EU level

AuthorEuropean Institute for Gender Equality (EU body or agency)
Pages13-20
1. Framework for risk assessment and risk management of intimate partner violence at EU level
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A guide to risk assessment and risk management of intimate partner violence against women for police
1. Framework for risk assessment and risk
management of intimate partner violence
at EU level
(34) Directive 2012/29/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and
protection of victims of crime, and replacing Council Framework Decision 2001/220/JHA, OJ L 315, 14.11.2012, pp. 57-73 (available at https://eur-lex.
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(36) European Commission, Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers (2012), DG Justice guidance document related to the transposition and
implementation of Victims Rights Directive 2012/29/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 establishing minimum
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(37) Directive 2011/99/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2011 on the European protection order, OJ L 338, 21.12.2011,
pp. 2-18 (available at https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32011L0099).
(38) Regulation (EU) No 606/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 June 2013 on mutual recognition of protection measures in civil matters,
OJ L 181, 29.6.2013, pp. 4-12 (available at https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32013R0606).
(39) Council of Europe (CoE) (2011), Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, CoE, Paris (available at https://
rm.coe.int/168046031c).
(40) Further information on the EU and international legislative framework is included in Annex 1.
1.1. Legal and policy
framework
Risk assessment and risk management of inti-
mate partner violence have been integrated into
the EU legislative and policy framework on vio-
lence against women, making explicit the links
between risk assessment and consequent ac-
tions to support and protect vic tims.
In the EU, the Victims Rights Directive (Direc-
tive 2012/29/EU) (34) is the main instrument es-
tablishing minimum st andards on the rights ,
support and protection of victims of crime. It in-
cludes many provisions directly or indirectl y re-
ferring to victims of gender-based violence, who
include victims of intimate partner violence (35).
The core objec tive of the Victims Rights Direc-
tive is to deal with victims needs  in an individual
manner, based on an individual assessment and
a targeted and participatory approach towards
the provision of information, support, protection
and procedural rights (36).
EU Directive 2011/99/EU on the European protec-
tion order (37) and Regulation (EU) No 606/2013
on mutual recognition of protection measures in
civil matters (38) oblige EU Member States to rec-
ognise protection orders issued in other Member
States, t hereby enabling cross- border enforce-
ment of such orders across the EU.
In addition to this, the Council of Europe Con-
vention on preventing and combating v iolence
against women and domes tic violence (39) (the
Istanbul Convention), t he first international in-
strument on preventing an d combating violen ce
against women and girls at the international lev-
el, specifically a ddresses risk assessment and risk
management as a s trategy for the prevention of
violence against women (Article 51). The Ist anbul
Convention is also the firs t international treaty
to include a specific obligation to protect against
violence through protection orders (Ar ticles 52
and 53) (40).
1.2. Tools and approaches
to risk assessment of
intimate partner violence
in the EU
Risk assessment in the context of intimate part-
ner v iolence is becoming increasingly wide-
spread across the EU and internationally, and

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