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EU Whistleblowing

EU Directive on Whistleblowing
16 Dec 2019 - Present

In 2019 the European Union adopted a far-reaching Directive on the protection of persons who report breaches of Union law.

The ‘EU Directive on Whistleblowing’ entered into force on the 16th of December 2019 and each of the 27 EU Member States have until the 17th of December 2021 to transpose its provisions into their national legal and institutional systems.

The EU Whistleblowing Meter was created by the Whistleblowing International Network to track the progress of transposition across all 27 Member States.

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EU Directive on Whistleblowing

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EU Directive on Whistleblowing

Published: Dec 2019

Irene Charalambidou, Member Parliment (AKEL), called for stronger Whistleblower protection in a recent speech (linked), stating ‘we have to wait when the European directive will come, in order to complement (the governmental law proposal) and proceed… But why? When all the European countries are adopting mechanisms for the protection of whistleblowers because it is the only way to fight corruption. Do we want to fight corruption or we just want to say that we want to fight corruption? Is there political will or there is not? We have to prove it. And the first step is to ensure the real protection of whistleblowers through adopting all necessary safety valves for their safety.’