Overview
Lobbying Costs
9,999€
Financial year: Sep 2019 - Aug 2020
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.75 Fte (2)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
1
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Whistleblowing International Network (WIN)
EU Transparency Register
433319333385-38 First registered on 04 Dec 2018
Goals / Remit
WIN developed from a small group of NGOs that, from 1979, built up legal, policy and advocacy expertise on whistleblowing and supported each other’s work. Over the years, other civil society actors sought the expertise of these more established NGOs. Most national organisations, however, remain burdened with heavy domestic workloads with little or no dedicated resources to work internationally. The need for a consistent and coherent way to collaborate on this very sensitive issue became increasingly urgent as whistleblowing moved into the information age. Operating as an organic network with a part-time director and a voluntary steering group for 5 years, WIN is now a registered incorporated charitable organisation based in Scotland with a committed international Board of Trustees and an engaged pool of members and associates. WIN’s mission is to protect the public interest by protecting whistleblowers worldwide.
Main EU files targeted
Monitoring and responding to legal issues brought about by the new EU Directive on the protection of persons reporting on breaches of Union law, DIRECTIVE EU 2019/1937 including supporting the effective transposition process in the 27 Member States over the two year transposition period since the Directive came into force in December 2019.
Address
Head Office
Brunswick House
51 Wilson Street
Glasgow G1 1UZ
UNITED KINGDOM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
2
Employment time Lobbyists 50% 1 25% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.75
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
Ida Nowers, Law and Policy Coordinator at WIN is advocacy lead for the EU Whistleblowing Meter project which in collaboration with partners EUROCADRES and Transparency International Europe monitors the transposition of the EU Directive on the protection of persons reporting breaches of Union law DIRECTIVE EU 2019/1937. See http://euwhistleblowingmeter.polimeter.org/
Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
III - Non-governmental organisations
Subcategory
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
None declared
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Sep 2019 - Aug 2020
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
9,999€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
From October 2019:
Ida Nowers presented at TAIEX Regional Seminar on the Whistleblowing Directive for enlargement countries in Brussels organized in co-operation with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, DG JUST / DG NEAR COTE Rule of Law / NEAR C3 and shared a panel with Ms Georgia Georgiadou, deputy Head of Unit, DG Justice, European Commission.
14 January 2020
WINs Board of Trustees joined NGO Xnet and other Spanish Associates in writing a separate open letter to the EU Commission calling for an amendment to the Official Spanish Translation of the EU Directive on the protection of persons who report breaches of Union law (DIRECTIVE 2019/1937)
https://whistleblowingnetwork.org/News-Events/News/News-Archive/WIN-Open-Letter-to-the-EU-Commission
https://whistleblowingnetwork.org/getattachment/News-Events/News/News-Archive/Job-Alert-Independent-Whistleblowing-Officer-S-1/WIN-Letter-re-Official-Spanish-Translation-EU-Directive.pdf.aspx
04 February 2020
Anna Myers spoke at launch in the European Parliament of the European Federation of Journalists on publication on Implementing the new Whistleblower directive guide for journalists co- organized by Free Press Unlimited, WIN and MEP Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield with author whistleblowing lawyer Mary Inman which discussed missed opportunities within the Directive and made several recommendations for transposition into member states national laws.
https://europeanjournalists.org/blog/2020/02/12/efj-published-a-transposition-guide-for-journalists-on-the-eu-whistleblower-directive/
28 April 2020
News article published to website highlighting the Group of States President Marin Mrčela against Corruption - “Corruption Risks and Useful Legal References in the context of COVID-19” guidance.
https://whistleblowingnetwork.org/News-Events/News/News-Archive/Covid-19-Whistleblowing-Protection-essential-to
18 June 2020
WIN joined 49 civil society organizations across Europe in writing to the president of the Eureopan Commission Ms Ursula Von der Lyen regarding Europe’s recovery after the pandemic and safeguarding civil society in light of revised Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027 (MFF) making substantial cuts to funding programmes. News piece published to website.
https://whistleblowingnetwork.org/Our-Work/Spotlight/Stories/Europe-s-recovery-after-the-pandemic-Civil-Socie.aspx
https://whistleblowingnetwork.org/News-Events/News/News-Archive/WIN-backs-letter-to-European-Commission-to-support
22 June 2020
WIN Website News Item on Vice President of the European Commission, Věra Jourová, responding to Anti-SLAPP coalition open letter which WIN was part of. Věra Jourová’s letter published online.
https://whistleblowingnetwork.org/News-Events/News/News-Archive/Vice-President-of-the-European-Commission-Vera-Jo
https://whistleblowingnetwork.org/Our-Work/Spotlight/Stories/Ending-Gag-Lawsuits-in-Europe
23 June 2020
EU Whistleblowing Meter Launched
Press Release published to website
https://whistleblowingnetwork.org/News-Events/News/News-Archive/PRESS-RELEASE-EU-Whistleblowing-Meter-Launched-to
31 July 2020
News item on WIN Website Round up July
https://whistleblowingnetwork.org/News-Events/News/News-Archive/EU-Whistleblowing-Meter-July-Round-up
28 August 2020
News item Round up August
https://whistleblowingnetwork.org/News-Events/News/News-Archive/EU-Whistleblowing-Meter-August-Roundup
01 October 2020
News item Round up on EU Whistleblowing Meter September
30 October 2020
News item Round up October for EU Whistleblowing Meter
https://whistleblowingnetwork.org/News-Events/News/News-Archive/EU-Whistleblowing-Meter-%E2%80%93-October-RoundupOther activities
Participate in Eurocadres Whistleblower Forum.
Meetings
Meetings
1 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
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Date 21 Nov 2019 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Whistleblowers Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Věra Jourová Portfolio Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality Attending - Kevin O'Connell (Cabinet member)
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