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How to File a Whistleblower Report with EU Authorities

Elevate accountability, safeguard integrity.  

Navigate the complexities of reporting unethical behavior or misconduct with confidence. In response to the EU Whistleblowing Directive, we’ve put together this comprehensive list of resources to file a whistleblower report – no matter where you’re located in the European Union.   

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Whistleblowing resources for NAVEX customers

Your whistleblowing hotline information is unique to your organization. We suggest searching your company intranet or reaching out to your HR team for support.  

Need additional help? Get customer support here.

File an external whistleblowing report

Occasionally, an internal report to your organization’s hotline is insufficient, or not possible. In such cases, reports can be made to an external government agency. Access country-specific EU whistleblower resources below – simply find your country in this alphabetical list.

Austria

Bundesamt zur Korruptionsprävention und Korruptionsbekämpfung

Bundesministerium für Inneres
Herrengasse 7
1010 Wien
Österreich
E-Mail: BMI-III-BAK-SPOC@bak.gv.at

Telephone: + 43 1 53 126-906800
Website

Belgium

Bulgaria

Central reporting channel

Commission for Personal Data Protection
2 Prof. Tsvetan Lazarov Blvd., Sofia, 1592

Еmail: kzld@cpdp.bg
Website

Croatia

Central reporting channel

Ombudswoman of the Republic of Croatia

The report can be submitted in writing or verbally. It must contain information on the reporting person, the legal or natural person the report pertains to, and the irregularities cited in the report.

Written reports can be sent by post or submitted in person to: Savska cesta 41/3, 10 000 Zagreb

Or email the information to info@ombudsman.hr

Use this form for written complaints.

Call 01 4851 855 or 01 4851 853 to report irregularities orally. Upon the reporting person’s express request, reports can be submitted personally at the Ombudswoman’s office in Savska cesta 41, Zagreb. The office’s designated staff must set up the meeting with the reporting person within a reasonable time frame.

Notice: Oral reports submitted via telephone will not be recorded. Instead, a transcript of the call will be made. The reporting person has the right to subsequently review the record and correct any errors as well as to confirm its accuracy by signing it.

Website

Cyprus

Central reporting channel

No reporting channels have been established yet.

Czech Republic

Central reporting channel

The Ministry of Justice provides an external reporting channel for all reporting persons.

Website

Denmark

Datatilsynet Whistleblowerordningen

Carl Jacobsens Vej 35
2500 Valby

Telephone: +45 33 19 32 02

E-Mail: wb@datatilsynet.dk

Website

There are a number of other internal and external whistleblower schemes, in addition to the Danish Data Protection Authority’s external whistleblower scheme, read about them here.

Estonia

Central reporting channel

No reporting channels have been established yet.

Finland

Central reporting channel

Office of the Chancellor of Justice

Visting Address:
Snellmaninkatu 1, Helsinki

Postal Address:
P.O. Box 20, 00023 Government, Finland

Telephone:
+358 (0)295 162 902 (registry)

Email:
kirjaamo.okv@gov.fi

Website

France

Central reporting channel

Défenseur des droits

Libre réponse 71120
75342 PARIS CEDEX 07

Website

Germany

Bundesamt für Justiz

Adenauerallee 99 – 103
53113 Bonn
Deutschland

Telephone: +49 228 99 410-40

Website

Hinweisgeberstelle
Graurheindorfer Straße 108
53117 Bonn

Email: hinweisgeberstelle@bafin.de

Reporting system

Telephone: +49 228 / 4108 – 2355

Website


Bundeskartellamt Responsible for reporting information on violations under § 2 paragraph 1 number 8. § 7 paragraph 1 sentence 2 HinSchG.

Kaiser-Friedrich-Str. 16 53113 Bonn

Reporting system

Telephone: +49 228 9499 386

Website

Greece

Central reporting channel

National Transparency Authority
195, Lenorman av. and Amfiaraou str., Athens, 10442

Telephone: +30 2132129 883, -884
Email: info@aead.gr

Website

Hungary

Central reporting channel

No reporting channels have been established yet.

Ireland

Office of the Protected Disclosures Commissioner
6 Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2, D02 W773

By email:

The email system is securely encrypted.

By phone: 01 639 5650

Telephone conversations are not recorded by this Office.

Website

The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform signed the Protected Disclosures Act 2014 (Disclosure to Prescribed Persons) Order 2020 in September 2020.

Website


The Central Bank of Ireland is a prescribed person for the purpose of receiving protected disclosures under the Protected Disclosures Act 2014 and under Part 5 of the Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) Act 2013.

Website

Italy

Central reporting channel

Autorità Nazionale Anticorruzione (ANAC) - - Tutti i diritti riservati
c/o Palazzo Sciarra,
Via Minghetti, 10
00187 Roma
C.F. 97584460584

Email: protocollo@pec.anticorruzione.it

Tel.:+39 / 06 62289571

Website

Latvia

The State Chancellery

FAO Inese Kušķe
Valsts kanceleja
Brīvības bulvāris 36
Centra rajons
Rīga
LV-1050
Latvia
Tel.: 67082910
Email: trauksme@mk.gov.lv

Website

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Central reporting channel

No reporting channels have been established yet.

Malta

No reporting channels have been established yet.

Several competent authorities, depending on the subject matter. For a full list, see the table in the First Schedule of the Act.

The Netherlands

External reports

Depending on the nature of the (suspected) misconduct and the report, it is possible to make a report through the websites / whistleblowing portals of the following authorities:

1.      Autoriteit Consument en Markt;

2.      Autoriteit Financiële Markten;

3.      Autoriteit persoonsgegevens;

4.      De Nederlandsche Bank N.V.;

5.      Het Huis voor Klokkenluiders;

6.      Inspectie gezondheidszorg en jeugd;

7.      Nederlandse Zorgautoriteit;

8.     Autoriteit Nucleaire Veiligheid en Stralingsbescherming.

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Poland

Central reporting channel

No reporting channels have been established yet.

Portugal

The National Anti-Corruption Mechanism will be responsible for processing administrative offences and for imposing the corresponding fines.

No reporting channel has been established yet.

Romania

Central reporting channel

National Integrity Agency/ Agentia Nationala de Integritate

Bulevardul Lascar Catargiu nr. 15, cod postal: 010661, sector 1, Bucuresti - Romania
Tel.: +40-372-06 98 69
Email: ani@integritate.eu
Website

The Competent Authority may allocate reports to other public authorities for investigation.

Slovakia

Central reporting channel

Whistleblower Protection Office (appointed prior to national implementing laws coming into effect)
Úrad na ochranu oznamovateľov
Námestie slobody 29
811 06 Bratislava

Tel.: +421 948 935 166
Email: sekretariat@oznamovatelia.sk
Website

Slovenia

Central reporting channel

Several competent authorities have been established, as set out in Chapter 5 and Article 14 of the Law.

Spain

No reporting channels have been established yet.

Sweden

Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten

Box 8114
104 20 Stockholm

Telephone: 08-657 61 00
E-Mail: imy@imy.se

Website