In June 2020, the European Commission adopted the European Union’s strategy on victims’ rights to improve access to justice for all victims of crime. Following the adoption of the strategy, the Commission was tasked with assessing whether a revision of the EU Directive 2012/29/EU establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime (EU Victims’ Rights Directive, the Directive, or VRD) was necessary. This initiated the current process of the Directive’s revision. This briefing, by REDRESS and the Global Initiative Against Impunity and funded by the European Union, comments on the 24 May 2024 note of the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union containing the latest draft of the proposed amendments and on the Directive itself.