This channel is made available for internal reporting of breaches, in accordance with the General Whistleblower Protection Regime (Law No. 93/2021, of December 20), as well as for internal reporting of situations of harassment and suspected ethics violations. It was established for communication between the whistleblower and the responsible entity: INESC-ID – Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores: Investigação e Desenvolvimento in Lisboa.

In this context, we remind you that harassment is any unwanted behavior practiced with some degree of repetition, which aims to affect a person's physical and/or psychological integrity or create an intimidating, hostile, humiliating and destabilizing environment. 

We also remind you that the General Whistleblower Protection Regime (article 2) includes the following list of infractions that can be reported through this channel:

a) The act or omission contrary to rules contained in European Union acts referred to in the annex to Directive (EU) 2019/1937 of the European Parliament and of the Council, national standards that implement, transpose or comply with such acts or any other norms contained in legislative acts implementing or transposing them, including those that provide for crimes or administrative offenses, relating to the areas of:

(i) public procurement; 

(ii) financial services, products and markets, and prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing; 

(iii) product safety and compliance; 
(iv) transport safety; 

(v) protection of the environment; 

(vi) radiation protection and nuclear safety; 

(vii) food and feed safety, animal health and welfare; 

(viii) public health; 

(ix) consumer protection; 

(x) protection of privacy and personal data, and security of network and information systems;

(b) breaches affecting the financial interests of the Union as referred to in Article 325 TFEU and as further specified in relevant Union measures; 

(c) breaches relating to the internal market, as referred to in Article 26(2) TFEU, including breaches of Union competition and State aid rules, as well as breaches relating to the internal market in relation to acts which breach the rules of corporate tax or to arrangements the purpose of which is to obtain a tax advantage that defeats the object or purpose of the applicable corporate tax law;

d) Violent crime, especially violent crime and highly organized crime, as well as the crimes provided for in paragraph 1 of article 1 of Law no. 5/2002, of January 11, which establishes measures to combat organized and economic and financial crime;

e) Any act or omission that contradicts the purpose of the rules or standards covered by subparagraphs a) to c).