The Estonian Ministry of Justice confirmed, on 28 January 2022, that the European Commission had initiated infringement procedures against Member States for failing to transpose the Directive on the Protection of Persons who Report Breaches of Union Law (Directive (EU) 2019/1937) ('the Whistleblowing Directive') before 17 December 2021.

In this regard, according to the Commission's website, letters of formal notice had been sent, on 27 January 2022, to Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Spain, Finland, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, and Slovakia.

You can read the Ministry's press release, only available in Estonian, here and track the Commission's infringement cases here.