Following the National Anti-Corruption Strategy 2020-2024, approved by Council of Ministers Resolution n.º 37/2021 of 6 April, Decree-Law n.º. 109-E/2021 of 9 December was published, which creates the National Anti-Corruption Mechanism and establishes the general regime for the prevention of corruption, as well as Law n.º 93/2021 of 20 December, which establishes the general regime for the protection of whistleblowers.
 
The Energy Services Regulatory Authority (ERSE), being within the scope of both pieces of legislation, has adopted and implemented a regulatory compliance programme, which includes a new plan for the prevention of risks of corruption and related offences, a new code of conduct, a training programme and reporting channels (internal and external), in order to prevent, detect and sanction acts of corruption and related offences carried out against or through the entity, as well as to protect whistleblowers of offences provided for in Law n.º 93/2021, of 20 December.