Last April, the Federal Ministry of Justice in Germany published a draft bill – the Whistleblower Protection Act (Hinweisgeberschutzgesetz/HinSchG) – to implement its obligations under the EU Whistleblowing Directive. The legislation should have come into force by last Autumn, but there have been various delays and it now looks more likely to be Summer this … Continue Reading
As per our previous blog post, very few members of the European Union managed to implement the provisions of the Whistleblowing Directive into their national legislation before the 17 December 2021 deadline for compliance. Germany is one of the countries that failed to meet the deadline, but as in a number of other EU countries, … Continue Reading
