The increase in laws that require businesses to encourage employees to report suspected breaches of laws and regulations and to comply with business codes of conduct mean that ethical reporting and whistleblower hotlines are a business norm. However a “one size fits all” approach to implementation does not work and many businesses have suffered investigations, audits, fines and even litigation in the EU because they have failed to recognize the different approaches to compliance in the various EU member states.

While Codes of Conduct or Codes of Ethics usually require staff and contractors to report issues or concerns that may relate to fraud, bribery, and other similar events in the workplace, in the EU there are data protection and related laws and regulations that may be in direct conflict with such reporting or disclosure.

This 60-minute presentation will help you understand the significant differences within the EU member states in relation to the way in which ethical/whistleblower hotlines can be implemented within a multinational organization.

Learning Objectives:

• How to balance compliance with SOX, FCPA, Dodd-Frank on the one hand and EU data protection laws on the other?
• How to build a whistleblower program to comply with EU laws?
• Understand different data protection laws in the EU.
• Learn the registration process for hotlines.
• Recognize the EU labor laws that affect hotline programs.

• SOX 301(4) and EU Laws.
• 2004 to today.
• Bribery, corruption and compliance.
• Audits and investigations.
• Compliance requirements.
• The cost of non-compliance.

This webinar will provide valuable assistance to all businesses that implement ethical and whistleblower hotlines. Those that would benefit most would be:

• Compliance officers
• HR Managers
• Legal counsel
• Risk managers

Robert, has specialised in data protection law since 1983 and was voted one of the Top 20 data privacy experts in Computerworld in Feb 2011.Robert is a Certified Compliance & Ethics Professional, a Companion of the British Computer Society, a Fellow of the Society of Advanced Legal Studies, a member of IAPP and SCCE and in 1994 was a researcher in Information Security and Data Protection at the University of Leicester. He is Chairman of the ICC (UK) E-Business, IT & Telecoms Committee, a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers and a Freeman of the City of London.

His clients include many US multinationals whom he advises on a range of IT and commercial contracts, bribery and corruption, ethics and responsibility, EU regulations and global data protection and information security compliance. Robert has close relationships with in-house teams at the data protection authorities in the US, UK, Ireland, France and Canada as well as in the European Commission and the Council of Europe.

Robert is listed as a data protection expert in Chambers (2009 to 2011) and in Chambers (2008) where clients describe him as “a brilliant lecturer, a meticulous lawyer” and “responsive – if you contact him, you know he’ll get back to you within the hour” and “authoritative – he really knows his stuff, and he has so many contacts within the EC he can predict trends and what’s coming further down the line, which is very useful for forward planning.” Chambers 2010 describes him as ”having taught almost every lawyer something about computers."

Registration - Session Only: $199.00

CD Recording Only: $449.00