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At its thirtieth sitting held on October 1, 2019, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted the Resolution and Recommendation on the protection of whistle-blowers. The debate, as well as recommendation and resolution, were based on a Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights report.[1]According to the research carried out by the rapporteur, less than 20 Council of Europe Member Countries (Albania, Croatia, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, Moldova, Netherlands, Slovakia, Sweden, and United Kingdom) have a comprehensive law protecting whistle-blowers. In the remaining EU countries, the protection granted is partial; it covers only public servants or only specific sectors (e.g., financial services) or only specific types of wrongdoings (e.g., corruption).