A matter of life & death:: whistleblowing legislation in the EU

• Autores: Simone White
• Localización: Eucrim: the European Criminal Law Associations' fórum, ISSN 1862-6947, Nº. 3, 2018, págs. 170-177
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Some EU Member States have already adopted broad-ranging whistleblowing legislation because of financial or public health scandals. In this context, the European Parliament suggested a draft directive to protect whistleblowers by offering a “horizontal” approach covering all public and private sectors. In 2018, the European Commission, by contrast, proposed widening the existing EU sectoral approach and including the protection of the financial interests of the European Union in a directive “on the protection of persons reporting on breaches of Union law.” The author argues that this broader sectoral approach − while making a step forward − still raises a number of issues