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Outline of the New EU Whistleblowing Directive

Author(s): József Hajdú
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, EU-Legislation
Published by: Editura Universităţii George Bacovia din Bacău România
Keywords: whistleblowing; EU Whistleblowing Directive; internal/ external reporting; public disclosure; anonimity; diligent investigation; mandatory arbitration and whistleblowing; non-disclosure agreement;

Summary/Abstract: With the European Union Whistleblowing Directive (2019), the topic of whistleblowing is becoming increasingly important for EU MS’s public and private entities. Whistleblowers might play a vital role in exposing corruption, fraud and mismanagement of the EU’s supranational norms. The Directive introduced minimum standards for the protection of whistleblowers and obliges many public and private entities to introduce their own internal whistleblowing channels. The aim of this article is to introduce the new EU Whistleblowing Directive’s main features and some presumable obstacles for implementation. The hypothesis is that the new Directive might enhance the fairwork-place environment, roll back fraud and corruption, reduce work-related wrongdoing and manage equal treatment and no-discrimination policy including bullying and sexual harassment. However, some theoretical and pragmatic discrepancies will be introduced as well.

  • Issue Year: X/2021
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 373-400
  • Page Count: 28
  • Language: English, Romanian