# Author reporting-person / alertador footer control

**Control date:** 23 August 2026 (temporal-scope clarification)

**Status:** controlling bilingual public-text and legal-scope safeguard
**Purpose:** preserve the exact website-footer wording by which Gil Marer states the capacity in which he has communicated and continues to communicate information, while avoiding retroactivity or an unsupported claim of automatic protected status.

## Exact Spanish footer text

### Posición del autor como persona informante / alertador

> Gil Marer declara que ha actuado y continúa actuando como persona informante/alertador, comunicando a autoridades, reguladores, órganos profesionales y otros destinatarios competentes información y alegaciones que considera fundadas y de interés público. Invoca —cuando resulten material, personal, temporal y territorialmente aplicables— la Directiva (UE) 2019/1937, la Ley 2/2023 española, la Hinweisgeberschutzgesetz (HinSchG) alemana y los regímenes de divulgaciones protegidas de Gran Bretaña y de Irlanda del Norte.
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> Esta declaración registra la capacidad en la que el autor afirma actuar. No confiere ni acredita por sí sola la condición jurídica de informante protegido, ni convierte retroactivamente hechos anteriores en infracciones de normas posteriores. Respecto de España, la disposición adicional sexta de la Ley 2/2023 puede extender las medidas de protección a personas que comunicaron acciones u omisiones comprendidas en su artículo 2 y ocurridas desde la entrada en vigor de la Directiva (UE) 2019/1937, aunque la comunicación precediera a la Ley. Esa regla temporal no elimina los restantes requisitos. En cada caso, la protección depende de los hechos, la materia comunicada, la creencia razonable, el canal y destinatario, el contexto laboral o profesional, los ámbitos personal, material, temporal y territorial, los plazos y las exclusiones legales. La aplicación de los regímenes de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte tampoco es automática. Ningún tribunal, regulador o autoridad competente se presenta aquí como si hubiera determinado esa condición para todas las comunicaciones.

### Enlaces oficiales

- [Directiva (UE) 2019/1937 — EUR-Lex](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2019/1937/oj)
- [Ley 2/2023, de 20 de febrero — BOE](https://www.boe.es/buscar/act.php?id=BOE-A-2023-4513)
- [Hinweisgeberschutzgesetz (HinSchG) — Bundesministerium der Justiz / Gesetze im Internet](https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/hinschg/)
- [Employment Rights Act 1996, Part IVA — Gran Bretaña](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/18/part/IVA)
- [Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 — Gran Bretaña](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/23/contents)
- [Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 — Irlanda del Norte](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1996/1919/contents)
- [Public Interest Disclosure (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 — Irlanda del Norte](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1998/1763/contents)

## Exact English footer text

### Author's reporting-person / whistleblowing position

> Gil Marer states that he has acted and continues to act as a reporting person/whistleblower, communicating to authorities, regulators, professional bodies and other competent recipients information and allegations that he considers grounded and in the public interest. He invokes—where materially, personally, temporally and territorially applicable—Directive (EU) 2019/1937, Spain's Law 2/2023, Germany's Hinweisgeberschutzgesetz (HinSchG), and the protected-disclosure regimes of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
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> This statement records the capacity in which the author says he acts. It does not itself confer or establish protected-reporting-person status or retrospectively turn earlier facts into infringements of later rules. In Spain, the Sixth Additional Provision of Law 2/2023 may extend protective measures to people who reported acts or omissions within Article 2 that occurred after Directive (EU) 2019/1937 entered into force, even where the communication preceded the Law. That timing rule does not remove the remaining requirements. Protection in each instance depends on the facts, subject matter, reasonable belief, channel and recipient, work-related or professional context, personal, material, temporal and territorial scope, time limits and statutory exclusions. The application of the Great Britain and Northern Ireland regimes is not automatic either. No court, regulator or competent authority is presented here as having determined that status for every communication.

### Official links

- [Directive (EU) 2019/1937 — EUR-Lex](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2019/1937/oj)
- [Spain's Law 2/2023 of 20 February — BOE](https://www.boe.es/buscar/act.php?id=BOE-A-2023-4513)
- [Hinweisgeberschutzgesetz (HinSchG) — Federal Ministry of Justice / Gesetze im Internet](https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/hinschg/)
- [Employment Rights Act 1996, Part IVA — Great Britain](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/18/part/IVA)
- [Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 — Great Britain](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/23/contents)
- [Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 — Northern Ireland](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1996/1919/contents)
- [Public Interest Disclosure (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 — Northern Ireland](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1998/1763/contents)

## Mandatory construction rules

1. `Persona informante / alertador` and `reporting person / whistleblower` describe Gil Marer's stated capacity; they are not presented as an adjudicated status.
2. The footer must retain the applicability qualifier and the second safeguard paragraph. Do not publish only the affirmative first paragraph.
3. Do not convert pre-entry events into infringements of later regimes. For Spain, however, test the express temporal extension in the Sixth Additional Provision communication by communication; do not erase it by saying only that pre-Law communications are excluded.
4. Do not treat the earlier Great Britain or Northern Ireland regimes as automatically applicable. Their employment/worker nexus, qualifying-disclosure, reasonable-belief, public-interest, recipient/channel, territorial and other statutory requirements must be tested on the specific communication.
5. Do not say that the listed laws prove the underlying allegations, validate every recipient/channel, remove limitation issues, immunise unlawful disclosure or displace confidentiality, privilege, data-protection, defamation, criminal-procedure or court-control rules.
6. Do not imply that any authority has recognised protected status unless a primary-source decision says so and its exact scope is stated.
7. Use official legal-source links. The links are source references, not legal advice or a conclusion on applicable law.
8. Any materially stronger public wording requires a new source-based legal review and an update to this control file.
9. The rendered footer may present the official-law entries as inline links and a compact official-sources row. Link markup does not alter the exact visible substantive paragraphs above.

## Source-status note

This file records a legally cautious public self-positioning statement. It is not a legal opinion, judicial finding, regulatory determination or guarantee of protection. Applicability must be assessed communication by communication under the law in force at the relevant time and in the relevant jurisdiction.