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How to blow the whistle: The new Whistleblower Protection Act in the Slovak Republic

11 December 2014

In the wake of a highly critical whistleblower protection report by Transparency International in 2013, which rated the protection of persons reporting criminal activity in the Slovak Republic as "none or very limited", the Slovak legislator has adopted a new Act on certain measures connected with the reporting of anti-social behaviour (the "Whistleblower Protection Act"). Under the legislation currently in force, the protection of whistleblowers is limited to witness protection programmes in criminal proceedings. The Whistleblower Protection Act thus seeks to fill the legislative void in the protection of whistleblowers as previously addressed in various pieces of legislation by the OECD and the Council of Europe.

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