A new Report of the European Union has highlighted that no cases have yet been reported under Estonia’s whistleblowing law.
Update summary:
The 2025 European Commission’s Rule of Law Report highlights that, according to written input from the Estonian Government, although Estonia’s Whistleblower Protection Act entered into force on 1 September 2024, there have been no reported cases under the new framework as of July 2025. While all public authorities and municipalities are designated to receive reports, Estonia has not established a single independent reporting body.
In’ it’s section on the anti-corruption framework, the report states:
“The Transparency International Estonia’s Advocacy and Legal Advice Centre (ALAC), established in view of providing advice to potential whistleblowers under the whistleblowers law, also provides advice to whistleblowers reporting other cases of misconduct occurred in the workplace, falling outside the application of the rules of whistleblowing. Since the law as adopted did not extend protection beyond reports on breaches relating to the areas of EU law, civil society raised the need to extend the protection also to persons reporting breaches of national law and to increase awareness raising.”
The report also highlighted that there is currently no plan to establish a central reporting channel – as has been done in several EU Member States, which as France, Slovakia and the Netherlands.
Estonia was fined (insert link to update above on CJEU fine) by the European Court of Justice in March for failing to fulfil its obligations for a timely transposition of the Directive.
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