Fine for the Netherlands for poor protection of whistleblowers
The European Commission has sent an official letter of formal notice because our country agreed too late on the protection of whistleblowers. The Dutch law should have been amended on December 17, 2021. The government must respond within two months. If the Netherlands fails to do so, proceedings will be filed with the European Court of Justice later this year.
Towering fine
According to Minister Bruins Slot, the minimum fine is almost three million euros. The penalty can amount to more than two tons per day. And the counter starts to run on December 17 last year. “It is very important to me to avoid proceedings before the Court with financial consequences,” she writes.
That is why the minister wants a quick meeting with the responsible EU Commissioner. She wants to ask him for more room for the creation of a law ‘which entails not only a good implementation of the EU Whistleblowers Directive, but also a further improvement of the position of whistleblowers’.
She writes where it starts at the moment under consideration, that she strives for a quick until a good decision to come to a good decision with the House can vote, so that she can prevent the EU from imposing fines.