Whistleblowers working in the Chamber of Deputies who have obtained information about breaches in a professional context (current, past or future employment relationship), including:

• salaried workers (including civil servants and State employees);
• self-employed persons;
• volunteers and paid or unpaid trainees; and
• anyone working under the supervision and direction of contractors, subcontractors and suppliers.

This also applies to:

• facilitators (natural persons assisting whistleblowers on a confidential basis);
• third parties who have a work-based or personal relationship with whistleblowers and who are at risk of retaliation, such as the whistleblower's colleagues or relatives;
• legal entities that the whistleblower owns, works for or is otherwise connected with in a work-related context;
• persons who have reported or disclosed information on breaches anonymously, but who are subsequently identified and suffer retaliation;
• persons reporting breaches to relevant institutions, bodies, offices or agencies of the European Union.

The following are not concerned:

• reporting of breaches relating to national security;
• whistleblowers whose relationships are covered by:
  • medical confidentiality;
  • the confidentiality of lawyer-client relations;
  • the professional secrecy to which a notary or court bailiff is bound;
  • the secrecy of judicial deliberations;
  • rules on criminal procedure.

What can be reported?

As a whistleblower, you can report any breach of national law and/or European Union law, that is to say, acts or omissions that:

• are unlawful; or
• defeat the object or the purpose of the directly applicable rules of national law or European law.

You can communicate any information, including reasonable suspicions, concerning:

• actual or potential breaches; and/or
• attempts to conceal such breaches,

which have occurred or are very likely to occur:

• in the organisation in which you work or have worked; or
• with which you are or have been in contact through your work.

What are the conditions for protection?

To be protected against all forms of retaliation, you must:

• have had reasonable grounds to believe that the information on breaches reported was true at the time of reporting and that such information falls within the scope of the law; and
• have made a report:
  • either internally: through the reporting channels of your undertaking or administration;
  • or externally: through the reporting channels of the competent authority;
  • or by way of public disclosure: following external reporting that yielded no satisfactory result.

Internal reporting to the Chamber of Deputies

You can report breaches to the Chamber of Deputies in Luxembourgish, French, German or English:

• via the 'Whistleblower' procedure without authentication on the secure MyGuichet.lu platform;
• by email to: CHD.Alerte@chd.lu;
• by post to the mailing address of the Chamber of Deputies:

Chambre des Députés
23, rue du Marché-aux-Herbes
L-1728 Luxembourg

The reporting channel of the Chamber of Deputies guarantees the completeness, integrity and confidentiality of the information provided. Only certain authorised officials of the Chamber of Deputies have access to the information transmitted in this way and are bound by professional secrecy.

Any processing of personal data carried out under the law of 16 May 2023 is carried out in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC.

As a public authority that processes personal data, the Chamber of Deputies is required to comply with its obligations as a data controller.

For any questions regarding the processing of your personal data by the Chamber of Deputies, please consult this page.

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