Fico's Coalition Repealed the Amendment to the Whistleblower Law. the Constitutional Court and the European Commission Were Against It.

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On Tuesday, members of the National Council of the Slovak Republic repealed the Act on the Office for the Protection of Victims of Crime and Whistleblowers, which was supposed to replace the current Office for the Protection of Whistleblowers (ÚOO). The law was scrapped after its effectiveness was suspended by the Constitutional Court and the European Commission withheld payments from the recovery plan because of it.

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Parliament approved the repeal of the Whistleblower Protection Office.

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The Office of the Ombudsman welcomes the move by the parliament to repeal the controversial law on the transformation of the office and, according to it, eliminate legal uncertainty.

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The law that was supposed to dissolve the Slovak Whistleblower Protection Office and replace it with a new one was repealed by the parliament. The European Commission initiated proceedings against Slovakia over it in January. The repeal still needs to be assessed by the president.

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In the words of Prime Minister Robert Fico, the Parliament is burying the “legislative corpse” that the Government Office and the Minister of the Interior Matúš Šutaj Eštok (Hlas) presented at the end of last year as its main priority. On Tuesday, it repeals the law by which the government abolished the Whistleblower Protection Office. And it is doing so through an appendix to the amendment to the Criminal Code on war graves and monuments. This …