XNet: We Ask That the Senate Amend the Law in Defense of Whistleblowers

This article features Government Accountability Project’s Legal Director, Tom Devine, and was originally published here.

International experts in the defense of whistleblowers alert the EU of serious deficiencies in the Spanish Law in view of the vote in the Senate this Tuesday

This Tuesday, February 8, the draft ” Law for the defense of whistleblowers ” ( Regulatory Law for the Protection of people who report on regulatory violations and the fight against corruption ) approved on February 23, is voted in the Senate . December, in the last plenary session of the Congress of 2022.

WIN, a European organization of reference, of which Xnet, GAP, The Signals and Blueprint for Freespeech are active members in Spain, warns that if it is approved in its current form and without the amendments that Xnet has recommended to the political groups in the Senate ( see below) , the bill could be disastrous for whistleblowers and even challengeable before the EU.

Xnet denounces that, just in these days in which for the second consecutive year Spain has once again worsened in the degree of perception of corruption according to the annual report of Transparency International, this law, which should serve as an instrument to fight against corruption, on the contrary, in its current wording it ends up being a mere minimum procedure to comply with the (delayed) transposition required by the EU .

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