The Committee of Experts on combating technology-facilitated violence against women and girls (GEC/PC-eVIO) is a joint subcommittee to the Gender Equality Commission (GEC) and to the European Committee on Crime Problems (CDPC).  It is tasked by the Committee of Ministers to draft a Recommendation on combating technology-facilitated violence against women and girls by 2025. 

In line with the Reykjavik Declaration, building on existing instruments and tools such as GREVIO General Recommendation n°1 on the digital dimension of violence against women, the draft Recommendation will put forward a comprehensive approach towards addressing technology-facilitated violence against women and girls. It should ensure that the member States are able to provide to victims adequate and effective responses, in particular under criminal law, with a view to preventing and combating these most pervasive forms of violence.

GEC/PC-eVIO is composed of eight representatives of member States, four on behalf of the CDPC and four of the GEC, and six independent experts with established expertise in the fields of preventing and combating violence against women and girls and of criminal law and procedure, with experience and knowledge related to technology-facilitated violence.  Expertise would also be brought in from the GREVIO, the Cybercrime Convention Committee (T-CY), the Committee of Parties to the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse (Lanzarote Committee) among others. Other member States may designate representatives without defrayal of expenses.

• Terms of Reference
• GREVIO's General Recommendation No.1 on the digital dimension of violence against women
• Protecting women and girls from violence in the digital age: the relevance of the Istanbul Convention and the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime in addressing online and technology-facilitated violence against women” (2021)
• Cyberviolence against women