Article 4
Personal scope
1. This Directive shall apply to reporting persons working in the private or public sector who acquired information on breaches in a work-related context including, at least, the following:
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persons having the status of worker, within the meaning of Article 45(1) TFEU, including civil servants; |
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persons having self-employed status, within the meaning of Article 49 TFEU; |
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shareholders and persons belonging to the administrative, management or supervisory body of an undertaking, including non-executive members, as well as volunteers and paid or unpaid trainees; |
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any persons working under the supervision and direction of contractors, subcontractors and suppliers. |
2. This Directive shall also apply to reporting persons where they report or publicly disclose information on breaches acquired in a work-based relationship which has since ended.
3. This Directive shall also apply to reporting persons whose work-based relationship is yet to begin in cases where information on breaches has been acquired during the recruitment process or other pre-contractual negotiations.
4. The measures for the protection of reporting persons set out in Chapter VI shall also apply, where relevant, to:
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third persons who are connected with the reporting persons and who could suffer retaliation in a work-related context, such as colleagues or relatives of the reporting persons; and |
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legal entities that the reporting persons own, work for or are otherwise connected with in a work-related context. |