July 9th or 10th July JURI report is presented (in theory, it means that the period for submitting amendments will be in July)
October 9th or 10th JURI vote
November/December Plenary
The proposed directive may or may not match with the European Parliament report. In the end the Parliament will get to vote on the directive and if it diverges too much from what is in the report, there is a good chance it will be voted down. The most important incentive for the European Commission to work on a directive is the 2014 resolution from the Council of Europe: it is not something that can be conveniently overlooked.
Veronika Nad is calling for a EU directive but does not participate in the green party proposal. She supports Virginie Rozière DRAFT report on on legitimate measures protect whistleblowers acting in the public interest when disclosing the confidential information of companies and public bodies.
Looks like the vote is postponed to October 2nd, 2017 and the vote in plenary session will happen October 22nd, 2017. I’m not sure where to find this information: someone told me.
Voted today by the European parliament. And now we have to wait for the European Comission to get to work and write a directive proposal. When or how will this happen ? Nobody knows. Who will work on it ? Mystery
I am told an alliance of non-profit was formed and will meet Tuesday 14th November 2017 in Bruxelles to discuss the next steps. It is likely to decide to work on recommendations to send to the commissioner who are in charge of drafting the directive. At this point it seems unlikely that the Commission will refuse to write a directive.
Virginie Rozière today at http://deslivresetlalerte.fr/ : “We expect a directive proposal early next year”. Nicole-Marie Meyer adds : “There is a platform where citizens can participate, initiated by WIN and Transparency France and others”. No URL yet, anyone knows more ?
We call on the European Commission to urgently propose an EU-wide legislation on whistleblower protection with a broad scope of groups and areas of activities protected.
no draft of the directive has been written and the commissioner who will be in charge of doing that was not designated yet
This seems like non-news but … there is a lot going on with all Eurocadres partners and it is worth watching blueprintforfreespeech for updates or even attending European Ideas Lab, Brussels next month. Although it is not exclusively focused on whistleblowing, there are a number of sessions related to the topic.
This document is a practical guide to the question of why the European Union has to become active on the matter of whistleblower protection, and on what legal grounds and precedence this is not only possible but necessary. It will also provide you with a state of the art of the debate in Brussels, and introduce you to the possibilities at hand to strengthen work on the issue.
V. Jourovà at timecode 12’40 06 : “We have to be much better in protecting honest people, including the journalists, but also whistleblowers, and I can only inform you today that we are finalising now the proposal for protection of whistleblowers which will be the legislation which will be horizontal and which I hope will increase the chances for the honest people, in case they see some wrongdoing which is detrimental to public interest, to come and report and to have the guaranteed protection. I think that this is a very, very important plan.”
The horizontal word means the directive will not be targeting exclusively whistleblowers from the financial sector.