Tax & Legal

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1. 06.03.2025

   Five Member States to pay financial penalties for failing to ...

   Following a failure to fulfil their obligations, five Member States are held liable by the European Court of Justice to pay financial penalties for failing to transpose the Whistleblowers directive. They must pay a lump sum to the Commission; Estonia, if it has still not transposed the directive, must also pay a daily penalty payment.

   Categories: From Europe

   Keywords: Whistleblowing, penalty
2. 16.02.2023

   EU Commission to refer 8 Member States to the ECJ over the p ...

   The European Commission decided to refer Czechia, Germany, Estonia, Spain, Italy, Luxembourg, Hungary and Poland to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for failure to transpose and notify the national measures transposing the directive on the protection of persons who report breaches of Union law into their legal framework.

   Categories: From Europe

   Keywords: Whistleblowing
3. 12.08.2022

   Germany to transpose EU Whistleblower Protection Directive i ...

   On 27 July 2022, the Federal Government adopted the draft bill submitted by the Federal Ministry of Justice for better protection of whistleblowers and for the implementation of the EU Directive 2019/1937 on the protection of persons reporting infringements of EU law. The draft bill will be forwarded to the Bundesrat (Federal Council/upper house) for comment and, following a rejoinder by the Federal Government, passed on to the Bundestag (lower house) for further discussion and approval.

   Categories: Legislation

   Keywords: Whistleblowing