This is an announcement for the paper “Daugavet property and separability in Banach spaces” by Abraham Rueda Zoca<https://arxiv.org/find/math/1/au:+Zoca_A/0/1/0/all/0/1>. Abstract: We give a characterisation of the separable Banach spaces with the Daugavet property which is applied to study the Daugavet property in the projective tensor product of an $L$-embedded space with another non-zero Banach space. The former characterisation also motivates the introduction of two indices related to the Daugavet property and a short study of them.. The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.09698