Eurostat WG on crime and criminal justice coordinates the data collection on crime and works towards to harmonize methodologies towards better comparability. EIGE is a permanent member of the WG. This meeting devotes to the analysis of the policy developments and policy needs for statistics (DG Home and DG Just) and to discuss the launch of the new wave of the EU-GBV survey. EIGE shares an update of the work done for the implementation of the VAW administrative data collection as per the Directive on combating VAW and DV.