EU
Legislation and Legal Instruments
Transposition Legislation
- Title: Proposition de Loi visant à améliorer la protection des lanceurs d’alert
- Adopted: 16 February 2022
- Promulgated: 22 March 2022
- Official Source: PROJET DE LOI
European Union Law Resources
EU Directive
- Title: 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
- Adopted: 23 October 2019
- Official Text: EUR-Lex
EU Compliance Report
- Title: Report from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council on the Implementation and Application of Directive (EU) 2019/1937 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2023 on the protection of persons who report breaches of Union law
- Published: 3 July 2024
- Official Source: EU Commission
Institutional Reports
NGO Transparency International EU Directive report
- Title: ‘How well do EU countries protect whistleblowers: Assessing the transposition of the EU Whistleblower Protection Directive’
- Published: 7 November 2023
- Description: The report scrutinises the new whistleblower protection laws adopted in 20 EU member states against the minimum requirements of the Directive and international best practice principles.
- Link: 2023-How-well-do-EU-countries-protect-whistleblowers-revised-revised.pdf
The International Bar Association and The Government Accountability Project join report
- Title: Are whistleblowing laws working? A global Study on Whistleblowers Protection Legislation
- Published: 22 March 2021
- Description: A global Study on Whistleblowers Protection Legislation which looks at the successes and shortcoming of whistleblowing protection in 38 countries (including France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Romania, Slovakia and Sweden.)
- Link: Are-whistleblowing-laws-working-report-2021March.pdf
Whistleblower protection in France report from the Défenseure Des Droits – the “Defender of Rights”
- Title: Whistleblower protection in France – Biennial report 2022-2023
- Published: September 2024
- Description: Report from the Défenseure Des Droits – the “Defender of Rights” reveals ongoing challenges in France’s whistleblower protections, despite legislative amendments in 2022 aimed at aligning with EU standards.
- Link: Whistleblower protection in France – Biennial Report 2022-2023 | Defender of Rights
Practical Guides and Tools
La Maison des Lanceurs d’Alerte’s Guide for Journalists and Whistleblowers
- Title: Publicising an alert: media coverage for journalists and whistleblowers
- Published: 22 April 2025
- Description: This guide provides an accessible breakdown of the applicable legal framework in France, Belgium and Switzerland, details the existing protections – and their limits – and offers practical advice on assessing and managing the risks involved in publicising public interest alerts.
- Link: Médiatiser une alerte: guide pratique pour journalistes et lanceur·ses d’alerte
TI France’s guide to whistleblower protection
- Title: A guide to optimal whistleblower protection
- Published: 16 December 2024
- Description: Transparency International’s new self-assessment framework ‘A guide to optimal whistleblower protection’ for internal whistleblowing systems is a valuable tool that helps organizations set up best practice systems.
- Link: Un guide pour une protection optimale des lanceurs d’alerte – Transparency France International
French data protection authorities’ opinion and Guidelines on processing personal information within a whistleblowing procedure
- Title: Guidelines on processing personal information within a whistleblowing procedure
- Published: October 2020
- Description: The French data protection authorities opinion and Guidelines on processing personal information within a whistleblowing procedure, a 2019 report of the European Data Protection Supervisor (prior to the adoption of the Directive) which sets out some helpful points regarding confidentiality regimes.
- Link: 16-07-18_whistleblowing_guidelines_en.pdf
Journals, Studies, and Analysis
The ‘WhistlePro’ Research Project on Workplace Whistleblower Protection in the V4 Countries
- Title: Towards a Better Protection of Workplace Whistleblowers in the Visegrad Countries, France and Slovenia
- Published: December 2021
- Description: The ‘WhistlePro’ Research Project on Workplace Whistleblower Protection in the V4 Countries, France and Slovenia financed by the International Visegrad Fund has now been published open access in several languages.
- Link: Towards a Better Protection of Workplace Whistleblowers in the Visegrad Countries
Second ‘WhistlePro’ international online conference on Whistleblower Protection at Work
- Title: Workplace Whistleblower Protection in the V4 Countries, France and Slovenia – Current Regulations and Proposed Changes
- Published: 15 June 2021
- Description: The second ‘WhistlePro’ international online conference on Whistleblower Protection at Work in the Visegrad Group countries, France and Slovenia, held by the University of Lodz took place on the 15 June 2021. Presentations were given by academics, public officials and civil society experts providing a comparative analysis of current national frameworks in France, Slovenia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia and the provisions of the Directive – see the programme here.
- Link: Workplace Whistleblower Protection in the V4 Countries, France and Slovenia – 15th June 2021