Source: vrt.be
The Federal Government of Belgium has in its Coalition Agreement expressed a commitment to a timely transposition of the Directive on Whistleblowing.
While the report does not contain any further details on how the Directive will be implemented, it references only the protection of civil servants reporting breaches in good faith (see page 77). It will be important for Belgium to transpose the Directive to protect a wider range of reporting persons beyond civil servants as required (see Article 4.) It is important also that a good faith requirement was specifically avoided during the drafting of the Directive. Recital 32 explicitly states that the motives of a whistleblower should not be relevant as a condition for protection.
The results of the tender for hire are not yet known. Given the COVID-19 crisis and the national implications of Brexit, further progress on transposition in Belgium is not expected until the beginning of 2021.