Source: ti-austria.at
The EU Commission has begun infringement proceedings against Austria after they failed to meet the 17 December 2021 deadline to transpose the EU Directive on whistleblowing.
Professor Eva Geiblinger, Executive Director of NGO Transparency International -Austria said:
“Despite public assurances from decision-makers, Austria failed to transpose the directive into national law. Almost two months after the deadline, neither a draft was presented nor the review process started.”
Austrian digital rights NGO, Epicenter.Works, referenced the infringement procedures against Austria in an update on the Julian Hessenthaler case.
Civil society experts are calling on policy makers to ensure a responsible transposition of the new EU rules in Austria; including an extension of the scope of the Directive to protect reports of national as well as EU law and facilitation of anonymous reporting.