Sure.
Many of the principles that Tom Devine has put in and that I was discussing—the five I mentioned—are in the EU directive. This will mean that 27 member states will have to transpose the directive into their national systems. There will be the ability to raise issues internally. If you work within the government, that's, obviously, within the government or to a ministerial body, but you also are able to be protected even if you go public under certain circumstances. The range of protected disclosures is going to be in all of these laws. The laws that already have it are the U.K.'s Public Interest Disclosure Act and Ireland's Protected Disclosures Act. Serbia, which isn't even part of the EU, has it, and France now has one of the most advanced laws.
Many years ago, many of us were told that whistle-blowing was very Anglo-Saxon, that it really fit within the common law, that it would never be part of the French system, but now France has one of the most extensive laws. It actually protects those who facilitate whistle-blowers in making their disclosures, and that can be a legal person. Like organizations that Tom Devine works for, many within the Whistleblowing International Network that I run would be protected if they supported the whistle-blower and they, too, found themselves under attack. That can be through criminal law and civil law for defamation, or through other forms of attack using the legal systems.
These are quite comprehensive laws. I am very happy to put together a list of some of those issues, where they've already existed, and what the EU directive will change.