Legislation and Legal Instruments:

• Transposition Legislation: Proposition de Loi visant à améliorer la protection des lanceurs d’alert
• Adopted: 15 February 2022 and was promulgated on 22 March 2022

Institutional Reports:

• NGO Transparency International EU Directive report – Published 7 November 2023

  • ‘How well do EU countries protect whistleblowers: Assessing the transposition of the EU Whistleblower Protection Directive’ scrutinises the new whistleblower protection laws adopted in 20 EU member states against the minimum requirements of the Directive and international best practice principles.

• The International Bar Association and The Government Accountability Project join report – Published 22 March 2021

  • Are whistleblowing laws working? A global Study on Whistleblowers Protection Legislation  which looks at the successes and shortcoming of whistleblowing protection in 38 countries (including France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Romania, Slovakia and Sweden.)
• Whistleblower protection in France – Biennial report 2022-2023 from the Défenseure Des Droits – the “Defender of Rights” – Published September 2024
  • Report from the Défenseure Des Droits – the “Defender of Rights” reveals ongoing challenges in France’s whistleblower protections, despite legislative amendments in 2022 aimed at aligning with EU standards.

Practical Guides and Tools:

• TI France’s ‘A guide to optimal whistleblower protection’ – Published 16 December 2024
  • Transparency International’s new self-assessment framework ‘A guide to optimal whistleblower protection’ for internal whistleblowing systems is a valuable tool that helps organizations set up best practice systems.
• French data protection authorities’ opinion and Guidelines on processing personal information within a whistleblowing procedure – Published October 2020
  • The French data protection authorities opinion and Guidelines on processing personal information within a whistleblowing procedure, a 2019 report of the European Data Protection Supervisor (prior to the adoption of the Directive) which sets out some helpful points regarding confidentiality regimes.

Journals, Studies, and Analysis:

• The ‘WhistlePro’ Research Project on Workplace Whistleblower Protection in the V4 Countries – Published December 2021
  • The ‘WhistlePro’ Research Project on Workplace Whistleblower Protection in the V4 Countries, France and Slovenia financed by the International Visegrad Fund has now been published open access in several languages.
• ‘WhistlePro’ international online conference on Whistleblower Protection at Work in the Visegrad Group countries – June 2020
  • The second ‘WhistlePro’ international online conference on Whistleblower Protection at Work in the Visegrad Group countries, France and Slovenia, held by the University of Lodz took place on the 15 June 2020.  Presentations were given by academics, public officials and civil society experts providing a comparative analysis of current national frameworks in France, Slovenia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia and the provisions of the Directive – see the programme here. A recording of the conference can be rewatched here.