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Spain passes new regulation on effective protection for whistleblowers
22/03/2023
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Rubén Agote
Rubén Agote is a partner at Cuatrecasas
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Jose Maria Martinez
Jose M Martínez Salamanca is an associate at Cuatrecasas

Completing the transposition of the EU’s Whistleblowing Directive, on 13 March, Spain’s new whistleblowing law went into effect.

The primary goal of the act is to facilitate the disclosure of breaches by obliging companies with a certain number of employees to implement a whistleblowing system guaranteeing the protection of anyone who reports regulatory breaches. Companies must provide reporting channels and effective whistleblower protection and make employees aware of this system.