The Advisory Commission on Whistleblower Protection will be officially constituted tomorrow, 15 July

Tomorrow, July 15, the constitutive meeting of the Advisory Committee on the Protection of the Informant, a collegiate body with advisory functions to the President of the AIPI, will take place, which will be able to commission reports on issues related to the matters in which the AIPI is competent. The Commission may also make proposals in these areas.

The Advisory Commission on the Protection of the Informant is regulated by Law 2/2023, of 20 February, regulating the protection of persons who report on normative violations and the fight against corruption, and in the Statute of the Authority. It has 13 members, ten of whom represent different authorities and organizations with competencies related to the AIPI; two others are jurists of recognized prestige, and another one represents the associations of the informants.

The appointment of the members was made by Order PJC/616/2026, of 15 June, appointing members of the Advisory Committee on the Protection of the Informant. They are as follows:

• Joan Mauri Majós, Counsellor of the Second Economic and General Affairs Department of the Court of Auditors, representing the Court of Auditors.
• Gonzalo Gómez de Villalobos, Deputy Director-General for Transparency and Good Governance, representing the Council for Transparency and Good Governance.
• María Luisa Araujo Chamorro, President, on behalf of the Independent Office for the Regulation and Supervision of Recruitment.
• Diego Pérez Martínez, Director de la División Jurídico Institucional, en representación de la Autoridad Independiente de Responsabilidad Fiscal, A.A.I.
• Francisco Javier Priego Pérez, Secretary General of the Bank of Spain and Chairman of the Committee responsible for the Internal Information System of the Bank of Spain, representing the Bank of Spain.
• Regina Rodríguez-Pomar Camps, Director of the Department of Retail Investor Protection and Financial Education, representing the National Securities Market Commission.
• Miguel Bordiu García-Ovies, Secretary of the Council, representing the National Commission of Markets and Competition.
• Elena Marina Rodríguez Ramalle, General Director of the Advisory, representing the State Attorney General.
• Enrique Rubio Herrera, Director of the National Audit Office, representing the National Audit Office of the General Intervention of the State Administration.
• María del Carmen Bernardo Gómez, Director of the Internal Audit Service of the State Tax Administration Agency State Tax Administration Agency, representing the Ministry of Finance.
• Ana María Garrocho Salcedo, Full Professor of Criminal Law at the Carlos III University of Madrid, as a representative appointed by the Ministry of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Courts among jurists of recognized competence with more than ten years of professional practice.
• Óscar Sánchez Muñoz, Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Valladolid, as a representative appointed by the Ministry of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Courts among jurists of recognized competence with more than ten years of professional practice.
• Itziar González Virós, as representative of the informants at the national level among the most representative associations.

The Director of the Department of Follow-up and Sanction Regime, Teresa de Jesús Sánchez Armas, exercises the Secretariat of the Commission.