Official documents of the Office
We are transparent and publish all relevant information concerning the functioning and management of the WPO.
Annual reports
Financial management of the office
The Whistleblower Protection Office is a budgetary organisation. Its establishment was supported by the Recovery and Resilience Plan of the Slovak Republic, in addition to the state budget. The year 2023 was the second year in which it went through a complete budget cycle and the first in which its expenditure was not significantly distorted by the use of European funds. All documents related to the use of public funds are transparently published, in the form of publication of the list of orders and invoices and also in the Central Register of Contracts.
Internal directive of the WPO on the protection of whistleblowers
Directive No. 4/2023 on the protection of whistleblowers of the Office for the Protection of Whistleblowers (as amended by Supplement No. 1).
The Directive is issued pursuant to Act No. 54/2019 Coll. on the Protection of Whistleblowers of Anti-Social Activity and on Amendments and Additions to Certain Acts (hereinafter also referred to as "the Act"), which regulates the conditions for providing protection to persons in an employment relationship or in another similar relationship in connection with the reporting of anti-social activity.
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Code of Ethics for the Whistleblower Protection Office staff [.pdf, 160 kB]
Data Protection
The protection of personal data is very important to the Office for the Protection of Whistleblowers (hereinafter referred to as "the WPO") and the WPO considers it necessary to inform the public about how it processes the personal data it collects, why it collects it and what this means for the data subjects. For this reason, and in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council 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 (General Data Protection Regulation) (hereinafter referred to as the "GDPR") and Act No. 18/2018 Coll. on the Protection of Personal Data and on Amendments and Amendments to Certain Acts (hereinafter referred to as the "Act on Personal Data Protection"), the WPO provides the following information on the processing of personal data.
