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1. Any actions or omissions that may constitute infringements of European Union Law. Actions or omissions that may constitute a serious or very serious criminal or administrative offence. In any case, all serious or very serious criminal or administrative infractions that imply economic loss for the Public Treasury and Social Security will be understood to be included.
This law will apply to informants who work in the private or public sector and who have obtained information about violations in a work or professional context, including in any case:
a) people who hold the status of public employees or employed workers;
b) self-employed workers;
c) shareholders, participants and persons belonging to the administrative, management or supervisory body of a company, including non-executive members;
d) any person working for or under the supervision and direction of contractors, subcontractors and suppliers.

2. This law will also apply to informants who communicate or publicly reveal information about infractions obtained within the framework of an employment or statutory relationship that has already ended, volunteers, interns, workers in training periods regardless of whether or not they receive remuneration, as well as those whose employment relationship has not yet begun, in cases where information about infractions has been obtained during the selection or pre-contractual negotiation process.

3. The informant protection measures provided for in Title VII will also apply, where appropriate, specifically to the legal representatives of workers in the exercise of their functions of advice and support to the informant.

4. The informant protection measures provided for in Title VII will also apply, where appropriate, to:
a) natural persons who, within the framework of the organization in which the informant provides services, assist them in the process,
b) natural persons who are related to the informant and who may suffer retaliation, such as co-workers or family members of the informant, and
c) legal entities, for which they work or with which they maintain any other type of relationship in a work context or in which they have a significant participation. For these purposes, it is understood that the participation in the capital or in the voting rights corresponding to shares or participations is significant when, due to its proportion, it allows the person who owns it to have the capacity to influence the invested legal entity.