Lag (2021:890) om skydd för personer som rapporterar om missförhållanden (Whistleblower Protection Act), Chapter 8, Sections 1 to 3, Recording of Oral Reports

Chapter 5, section 2 obliges an operator that had 50 or more employees at the start of the calendar year to have internal reporting channels and procedures for reporting and follow-up. Chapter 8, section 1 requires whoever is obliged to have internal or external reporting channels and receives oral reports to document the reporting by a recording that can be saved in a durable and accessible form or by minutes.

If the oral reporting takes place other than at a physical meeting, the documentation duty may also be met by a transcript of the recording or in another suitable way. Chapter 8, section 2 provides that a reporting may be recorded only if the reporting person consents to it. Chapter 8, section 3 requires the reporting person to be given the opportunity to check, correct and approve by signature a transcript or minutes.

Chapter 10, section 1 has the authorities the government designates as supervisory authority see to it that operators follow the Act's provisions on internal reporting channels and procedures for reporting and follow-up. The Act took effect on 17 December 2021. Chapter 5 first applied on 17 July 2022 to operators other than private operators with 50 to 249 employees, and on 17 December 2023 to those private operators.