Source: OSIG, Rapport d’activites 2024
Luxembourg’s Office des signalments (OSIG) (“Whistleblowing Office”) publishes first full-year statistics on assistance requests, external reports and implementation activity
Key Highlights
- OSIG counted 86 assistance requests in 2024, including 80 requests about internal or external reporting procedures and 5 requests concerning judicial remedies against retaliation.
- Competent authorities reported 547 external reports in 2024, resulting in 328 investigations or procedures opened; 166 were still under instruction, and 250 had been completed.
- The Labour and Mines Inspectorate (ITM) and the financial-sector regulator (CSSF) accounted for the largest volumes, with 310 and 150 reports respectively.
- Main subject areas included worker health, safety and working conditions; financial services and markets; privacy and data protection; corporate tax; and anti-money laundering/counter-terrorist financing.
- OSIG also received 10 files from ITM concerning alleged failures such as failure to provide required information or failure to establish internal reporting channels. Three were closed without sanctions, and seven remained under instruction.
- The report records expanded outreach, including training, conferences, stakeholder engagement, a public brochure, posters and an explanatory video, as well as three OSIG collaborators by 31 December 2024.
Expert Commentary
This is an important substantive snapshot of the development of Luxembourg’s whistleblower reporting and protection infrastructure. It provides the first full-year picture of how the framework is being used, which authorities receive reports and from which sectors, and how OSIG is developing its assistance, awareness, and monitoring role.
The data supports a cautiously positive assessment of implementation, but it should not be read as proof that the system is fully mature. The Monitor will continue to track available data on retaliation outcomes, handling times, feedback to reporting persons, sanctions practice and qualitative evaluations of the law.
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