Internal, external and public routes

1. Regulatory Concept & Core Standards

This video's topic is internal, external and public routes. By the end, you should be able to distinguish reporting routes and conditions. We will connect the information available, the criterion guiding the decision and the action that must be recorded. Follow the case and compare your answer with the proposed response. Protection depends on statutory conditions and facts. Receipt and formal recognition by the Prosecutor’s Office are different events. Examine the work connection, public interest and reporting route without promising identical guarantees to everyone.

Article 4 provides internal, direct and public routes. Direct reporting and public disclosure have different conditions. A technical provider does not turn an employer channel into the Prosecutor’s Office channel.

Apply the following rule: The Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Lithuania performs the competent-authority functions. Direct reporting follows Article 4 conditions, such as serious danger, possible management involvement, a non-functioning channel or ineffective action. Article 4(5) applies on learning of possible indications of a criminal offence. Public disclosure follows the separate Article 4(10) conditions. A software provider is not the Prosecutor’s Office.

2. Practical Implementation & Procedure

Identify the recipient and powers. Check the article 4 ground and official submission method. Assess disclosure separately, including urgency and confidential-information limits. Before moving on, turn this procedure into a sequence you could explain to a colleague. Identify the first check, the action that depends on its outcome and the record that allows the decision to be reconstructed. Follow the sequence on screen and identify the point where an error would change the result.

At each step, compare the information available with what is still needed for the decision. Arrange continuity when the designated worker is absent. A substitute receives only the information needed for the task, and their actions must remain verifiable.

Mark an unanswered question as a fact to verify. Identify who could confirm it and what access they actually need. A correct exercise choice alone does not show that the reasoning is understood. If the answer depends on an additional fact, state that condition explicitly.

For the workplace task, name the person who can approve the change and the person who will check that it works. Produce a concrete verifiable action, rather than only a promise to follow rules. Check effects on access rights and user information. Record questions that your organisation still needs to resolve.

3. Case Study & Compliance Action

A worker alleges management involvement and chooses the Prosecutor’s Office. Another wants to publish the same documents on social media. Different conditions apply. Now read the case carefully. Separate established facts from information you would still need to confirm. Do not add motives or events that have not been described. This distinction matters when choosing a response proportionate to the information available.

The exercise is as follows: Does an external server mean a statutory external channel? Choose an answer and write one sentence explaining it. During the pause, compare your choice with the criteria we have just considered. Also think about the material you would retain to explain the decision later.

No. The recipient’s legal role matters, not server location. A supplier has no prosecutor powers or authority to guarantee disclosure protection.

One mistake to avoid is: equating technical location with the legal route.

Now apply the national rule to a second decision. A worker is told that reporting to the Prosecutor’s Office requires the manager’s permission. Is that correct?

The Act does not impose such general employer permission. Check the direct-reporting ground under Article 4 and the official submission method. Possible management involvement, a non-functioning channel and ineffective action are circumstances requiring individual assessment. The advice line explains the procedure, but seeking advice is not itself submitting a report. Public disclosure has separate conditions.