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Directive (EU) 2019/1937 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2019 on the protection of persons who report breaches of Union law

European Parliament and Council of the European Union · European Union · 26 Nov 2019 · Several countries

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Directive (EU) 2019/1937 of 23 Oct 2019 on the protection of persons who report breaches of Union law, OJ L 305 of 26.11.2019 (40 pp.): 110 recitals and 29 articles on scope, conditions for protection, internal and external reporting channels and deadlines (acknowledgment within 7 days, feedback within 3 months, or 6 for external reports in justified cases), public disclosure, confidentiality, anonymous reports left to member states (Art. 6(2)), ban on retaliation, support and protection measures, penalties (Art. 23), transposition (17 Dec 2021; 17 Dec 2023 for 50-249 workers), Commission reports (17 Dec 2023 and 17 Dec 2025), member-state annual statistics (Art. 27(2)), annex of Union acts. No reward scheme: recital 30 excludes registered informants who report to enforcement authorities in return for reward or compensation. No statistics. Adoption event already in the data; added channel threshold, acknowledgment and feedback deadlines (proposed rules) and the two transposition deadlines as events. The EUR-Lex HTML copy (euu-eurlex-directive-2019-1937) is the same text and is not extracted again.

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What it covers Official Journal L 305/17 text; Article 26 transposition deadlines.

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