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Internal reporting channel

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A confidential route for staff and contractors to raise concerns about AI systems outside the chain of command, with statutory clocks encoded (under the EU Whistleblower Directive, acknowledgment within seven days and feedback within three months) and protection against retaliation 1.

Developed in
ch. 12, A channel for raising concerns
Chapters
ch. 12, Governance Program
Source
1 numbered reference, listed below

Where it is used

One chapter of the Body of Knowledge uses the term. Each link opens the first section that does.

Internal reporting channel: mentions per chapter3 mentions of the term across 1 of the 23 chapters of the Body of Knowledge; the chapters the glossary cross-references are drawn solid.Other chapterCross-referenced, not named08 Regulatory Map: 3 mentions08 Regulatory Map312 Governance Program0No mentions in the other 21 chaptersSource: the Body of Knowledgev0.5.0
Internal reporting channel: mentions per chapter3 mentions of the term across 1 of the 23 chapters of the Body of Knowledge; the chapters the glossary cross-references are drawn solid.Other chapterCross-referenced, not named000102030405060708 Regulatory Map: 3 mentions3081011121314151617181920212223Source: the Body of Knowledge v0.5.0
Mentions per chapter How often each chapter names the term, with the chapters the glossary cross-references drawn solid. The longest bar is where to read the term in use; bars spread across many chapters mark a term that runs through the discipline.
Mentions as a table
Mentions of Internal reporting channel per chapter
ChapterMentionsCross-referenced
00 Preface0No
01 Definition0No
02 Why Now0No
03 Values & Principles0No
04 The Stack0No
05 Patterns0No
06 The Role0No
07 Maturity Model0No
08 Regulatory Map3No
10 Reading List0No
11 AI Defined0No
12 Governance Program0Yes
13 Risk Management0No
14 Development0No
15 Deployment0No
16 Fairness & XAI0No
17 Incidents0No
18 EU AI Act0No
19 Privacy & AI0No
20 Existing Law0No
21 AI Laws Worldwide0No
22 Principles & Standards0No
23 AI Agents0No
  • AI system

    For governance, the object the AI definition brings into scope.

Sources

  1. [1] Directive (EU) 2019/1937 on the protection of persons who report breaches of Union law (Art. 8 internal channels for private entities with 50 or more workers; Art. 9 acknowledgment within seven days and feedback within three months; Art. 19 no retaliation). Publications Office of the EU (EUR-Lex). 2019-10-23. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2019/1937/oj/eng (verified: primary)

Definitions of legal terms paraphrase the cited text, which governs. Dated statements are as of .

Cite this term

García Aibar, J. (2026). Internal reporting channel. In AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis & Body of Knowledge (v0.5.0), Glossary. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197. https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/internal-reporting-channel. CC BY 4.0

BibTeX

@misc{aige2026internalreportingchannel,
  author  = {Jorge García Aibar},
  title   = {{Internal reporting channel}},
  note    = {Glossary, AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis \& Body of Knowledge, version 0.5.0},
  year    = {2026},
  doi     = {10.5281/zenodo.22956197},
  url     = {https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/internal-reporting-channel}
}