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Marleen Kristin Ellinger LL.M.

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Marleen Kristin Ellinger is an associate in the Baker McKenzie office in Munich. She joined Baker McKenzie’s Dispute Resolution Practice Group in 2021 and focuses on internal investigations, compliance and ethics as well as commercial litigation. During her legal clerkship, Marleen worked at the Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Geneva and renowned international law firms in Dusseldorf.

The German Whistleblower Protection Act was (finally) passed on 12 May 2023, after several attempts, following final amendments proposed by the Mediation Committee on 9 May 2023, which have now been accepted by the Federal Parliament (Bundestag) and the Federal Council (Bundesrat). The long overdue law serves to implement the European Whistleblower Directive (Directive (EU) 2019/1937), which actually provided for an implementation deadline of December 2021. The law will now come into force in mid-June 2023.

The German Bundestag passed the German Whistleblower Protection Act on 16 December 2022. After initially not being expected to be passed this year, the bill did make it onto the agenda of the last session day of the year at short notice and was passed in a version amended by the Legal Affairs Committee (Rechtsausschuss) with the coalition’s majority. The next step is for the Bundesrat to approve the bill. However, this is not expected until the first plenary session in February 2023 at the earliest.