Within seven working days, we will acknowledge receipt of your report in writing.

We will then check whether your report involves a breach of integrity within GISS or State Security, and whether we are legally competent to intervene.

We may contact you to ask for further details and documents (by email, telephone or in person).

We will inform you of our decision on the admissibility of your report within eight weeks.

If your report is admissible, it will be examined and a confidential report will be drawn up with any conclusions and recommendations.

As a general rule, the investigation is launched within one month of the admissibility decision, and within five months at the latest. An investigation normally takes three months, but can be extended depending on the nature and scope of the verifications to be made.

For further information, please consult the Act of 8 December 2022.

We may decide that it is not appropriate or possible to investigate the integrity breach further. We may also decide to close the whistleblower procedure immediately in the event of repeated reports containing no significant new information compared with a previous closed report. In such cases, we will inform you of the reasons for such a decision.

If we are unable to help you in the context of the Act of 8 December 2022, we will examine whether the Committee can be referred to on the basis of its other responsibilities. In any event, we will provide you with explanations and, if necessary, the contact details of the service that can examine your report.

If your report concerns another external reporting channel that we identify, we will forward it directly to the competent authority for processing and inform you accordingly.