Whistleblowers who, in the course of their professional relationship with the Ministry of Housing and Spatial Planning (MLOGAT), have obtained information about breaches in a professional context, including:

• salaried workers (including civil servants and State employees);
• job candidates;
• persons whose work relationship has been terminated;
  
• persons who are self-employed;
• shareholders and persons belonging to the administrative, management or supervisory body of an undertaking, including non-executive members;
• volunteers and paid or unpaid trainees;
• anyone working under the supervision and direction of contractors, subcontractors and suppliers.

The protection also extends 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.

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
• goes against 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?

In order to qualify for protection 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 fall 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.

Submission of an internal report to the Ministry

If, as a whistleblower, you wish to report breaches of legislation to one of the MLOGAT departments (Department of Housing or Department of Spatial Planning), you can contact the relevant department in Luxembourgish, French, German or English:

• via the 'Whistleblower' procedure without authentication on the secure MyGuichet.lu platform; or
• by email to:
  • signalement@ml.etat.lu for the Department of Housing; or
  • signalement@mat.etat.lu for the Department of Spatial Planning; or
• by post to the ministry's postal address:

Ministère du Logement et de l’Aménagement du territoire

Département du logement (housing)

or (depending on your report)

Département de l’aménagement du territoire (spatial planning)

4, place de l’Europe

L-1499 Luxembourg

The MLOGAT reporting channels are designed to ensure the confidentiality of any information sent to either department. The information transmitted in this way is accessible only to certain authorised staff of the relevant department, who 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 processing personal data, the MLOGAT is bound to respect the obligations incumbent on it in its capacity as a data controller.

For any questions regarding the processing of your personal data by MLOGAT, please refer to the following pages:

• Departure of Housing;
• Department of Spatial Planning.

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