{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2020-1575/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2020-1575/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2020/1575",
  "legislation_title": "Decision (EU) 2020/1575 of the European Central Bank of 27 October 2020 as regards the assessment of and follow-up on information on breaches reported through the whistleblowing tool where a person concerned is a high-level ECB official (ECB/2020/54)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2020-1575",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Procedure for assessment and follow-up",
  "text": "1. Reports of information on breaches received through the whistleblowing tool which refer to a high-level ECB official as a person to whom a breach is attributed or with whom that person is associated shall be followed up in accordance with Decision (EU) 2016/456 of the European Central Bank (ECB/2016/3) where such reports fall within the scope of that Decision.\n2. Where the reports of information on breaches referred to in paragraph 1 do not fall within the scope of Decision (EU) 2016/456 (ECB/2016/3), they shall be followed up in accordance with Administrative Circular 01/2006 on internal administrative inquiries.\n3. Notwithstanding paragraph 2, the competent authority designated under Article 2 may:\n(a) prior to concluding whether or not the information received justifies an internal inquiry, forward the information received to the ECB’s Ethics Committee for its advice on the matter;\n(b) if they conclude that the information received justifies an internal administrative inquiry, decide, in derogation from Article 4(1) to (4) of Administrative Circular 01/2006, to directly open an administrative inquiry, and take the relevant decision in accordance with Article 4(5) and (6) of Administrative Circular 01/2006, including the possibility that the competent authority designated under Article 2 exceptionally decides to carry out the administrative inquiry themself, designating in this case either an individual or a panel, with adequate seniority, to conduct the inquiry.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Decision (EU) 2016/456 of the European Central Bank of 4 March 2016 concerning the terms and conditions for European Anti-Fraud Office investigations of the European Central Bank, in relation to the prevention of fraud, corruption and any other illegal activities affecting the financial interests of the Union (ECB/2016/3) (OJ L 79, 30.3.2016, p. 34)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Administrative Circular 01/2006 was adopted on 21 March 2006 and is available on the ECB’s website."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2020/1575/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:12:06.582720+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}