Corruption, EU Directive, Whistleblowers

Poland post-regime change: shifting enforcement approaches to state-owned enterprises and their business partners

A&O Shearman on 1/29/2025

There was significant legal and regulatory scrutiny across both private and state-owned sectors in Poland in 2024, focusing on business fraud, sanctions compliance, money laundering, and bribery. State-owned enterprises,...more

EU Whistleblower Directive: A Primer (Part IV of IV) – Protections, Prohibitions and Penalties

The Volkov Law Group on 7/8/2021

The Directive’s robust prohibitions against retaliation for covered persons—including both attempts and threats— is meticulously outlined in Article 19....more

EU Whistleblower Directive: A Primer (Part III of IV) – Data Privacy and Recordkeeping

The Volkov Law Group on 7/8/2021

Article 17 of the Directive explicitly incorporates the provisions of Regulation 2016/679 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data (“GDPR”) to the handling of such data in relation...more

EU Whistleblower Directive: A Primer (Part I of IV) – An Overview

The Volkov Law Group on 7/1/2021

Directive 2019/1937 of the European Parliament and Council dated 23 October 2019 on the “protection of persons who report breaches of Union law” (the “Directive”)[1] is set to enter into legal force on 17 December 2021—the...more

The EU Commission’s Proposal for a Directive on the Protection of Whistleblowers

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer on 6/1/2018

On April 23 2018, the European Commission published a proposal for a Directive (the proposal or the Directive) on whistleblower protections in response to a request from the European Parliament...more

White Collar Crime Alert - Proposition de directive européenne sur la protection des lanceurs d’alerte

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer on 5/16/2018

En publiant le 23 avril 2018 une proposition de directive sur les lanceurs d’alerte, la Commission européenne répond aux sollicitations du Parlement européen. ...more