Abstract
The European Parliament and the Council (EU) on October 23, 2019 adopted Directive 2019/1937 on the protection of persons reporting violations of EU law. It aims to improve the enforcement of EU laws and policies by increasing the ability to effectively detect violations of the regulations. The means to achieve this goal is to guarantee the protection of individuals who, because of their work (sensu largo), have information that proves a violation of EU law and is thus harmful to the public interest, and report these violations or disclose them to the public (whistleblowers). What is more, the Directive shifts public administration duties to the individuals. The article is an attempt to answer the question of whether the regulation of the protection of whistleblowers finds legal and social justification as well as to indicate the benefits and risks of granting whistleblowers special legal protection. The article ends with an assessment of the importance and implementability of the discussed regulation at both the social and economic levels.
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