The EU’s top court has fined Luxembourg €375,000 for failing to implement a directive on whistleblowers into national law on time. The European Court of Justice issued a ruling against five countries on Thursday, imposing fines ranging from €375,000 on Luxembourg to €34 million on Germany.

The European Union's highest court, the European Court of Justice, ruled that Germany, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Estonia and Luxembourg were too slow to incorporate new EU rules to protect insiders who expose fraud and abuse.

The EU Court of Justice on Thursday fined five countries for failing to adopt rules to boost protection for whistleblowers who expose fraud, tax evasion, data breaches and other misdeeds. The court handed a fine of 34 million euros ($36.

The European Union's highest court in Luxembourg is to decide on Thursday whether Germany has failed to adequately protect whistleblowers. The case is based on a complaint by the European Commission from March 2023 alleging that Germany did not implement EU legislation on time.