Whistleblowing Monitor
In April 2019, the European Parliament adopted a game-changing Directive designed to protect whistleblowers across Europe. After the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament approved the new law, it came into force on 16 December 2019. Directive (EU) 2019/1937 on the protection of persons who report breaches of Union law otherwise known as the ‘EU Directive on Whistleblowing’ must be transposed into the national law by the 27 EU Member States by the 17th of December 2021.
The EU Whistleblowing Monitor was created by the Whistleblowing International Network to track the progress of transposition of the EU Directive on Whistleblowing across all 27 Member States over the next 18 months. It will be updated as and when we are made aware of any information through our voluntary team of country editors and other relevant sources.
The EU Whistleblowing Monitor is hosted by WIN and Transparency International Ireland and is maintained by Ida Nowers, Project Coordinator at WIN, and Ed Haswell, Communications Officer at WIN. The website was designed and developed by Alex Popescu.
Whistleblowing International Network
The Whistleblowing International Network (WIN) is an international charity based in Scotland. WINโs mission is to strengthen the capacity of civil society to protect public interest whistleblowers worldwide, to support the work of civil society in turning legal rights into active protection for whistleblowers, and to assist in ensuring that whistleblowing disclosures achieve lasting change in the public interest.
Transparency International Ireland
Transparency International Ireland is the Irish chapter of the worldwide movement against corruption, specialising in research, advocacy, and delivery of services aimed at supporting whistleblowers.
Voluntary Country Editors
We are grateful for the support of our voluntary team of country editors who are helping us to keep track of the steps that are being taken in each of their countries to transpose the new EU Directive on Whistleblowing.
| ๐ฆ๐น Austria | Thomas Lohninger |
| ๐ง๐ช Belgium | Michael Clarke |
| ๐ง๐ฌ Bulgaria | Kalin Slavov |
| ๐ญ๐ท Croatia | Ivan Novosel & Martina Refi Homolak |
| ๐จ๐พ Cyprus | Mary Pyrgros |
| ๐จ๐ฟ Czech Republic | Tomรกลก Munzberger |
| ๐ฉ๐ฐ Denmark | TBC |
| ๐ช๐ช Estonia | Carina Paju |
| ๐ซ๐ฎ Finland | Miia Kannisto |
| ๐ซ๐ท France | Jean-Philippe Foegle |
| ๐ฉ๐ช Germany | Annegret Falter |
| ๐ฌ๐ท Greece | Nikolas Leontopoulos |
| ๐ญ๐บ Hungary | Krisztina Zala |
| ๐ฎ๐ช Ireland | John Devitt |
| ๐ฎ๐น Italy | Giorgio Fraschini |
| ๐ฑ๐ป Latvia | Inese Taurina |
| ๐ฑ๐น Lithuania | Deimantฤ ลฝemgulytฤ |
| ๐ฑ๐บ Luxembourg | Dimitrios Kafteranis |
| ๐ฒ๐น Malta | Manuel Delia |
| ๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands | Lotte Rooijendijk |
| ๐ต๐ฑ Poland | Marta Kozak-Maลnicka |
| ๐ต๐น Portugal | Maria Lopes |
| ๐ท๐ด Romania | Radu Nicolae |
| ๐ธ๐ฎ Slovenia | Maruลกa Babnik |
| ๐ธ๐ฐ Slovakia | Daniela Sojkovรก |
| ๐ช๐ธ Spain | Simona Levi |
| ๐ธ๐ช Sweden | Martin Jefflรฉn |
Senior Steering Committee
The EU Whistleblowing Monitor is meant to serve as a tool to monitor progress and advocate for robust whistleblower protections across Europe. To ensure developments are shared widely and to keep track of the quality of efforts made nationally, the EU Whistleblowing Monitor is overseen by a small steering group including:
Anna Myers, Executive Director, Whistleblowing International Network.
John Devitt, Chief Executive of Transparency International Ireland.
Nayla Glaise, President of Eurocadres and Convener of the WhistleblowerProtection.EU coalition.
Nick Aiossa, Deputy Director and Head of Political Integrity at Transparency International EU.
Use of Information
If any information from the EU Whistleblowing Monitor is to be used by journalists, academics or for commercial purposes, please provide a suitable citation to the EU Whistleblowing Monitor. If you have any questions regarding this policy, please contact: info@whistleblowingnetwork.org.
Disclaimer
The EU Whistleblowing Monitor represents to the best of our knowledge the current state of transposition of each Member State. Despite our intention to update the EU Whistleblowing Monitor as frequently as possible, we cannot guarantee that it will always represent the current state of transposition within every Member State. If you have information regarding any development or update on the transposition of EU Directive on Whistleblowing in any Member State, please contact us.
Contact Us
If you have any information to share or any questions about the EU Whistleblowing Monitor, please contact: info@whistleblowingnetwork.org.