The Head of the Institutional Relations, Communication and Participation Unit of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, Amalia López Acera, interviews Hervé Falciani.
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Valencia, June 5, 2023.- Last February, Law 2/2023 regulating the protection of people who report on regulatory infractions and the fight against corruption was approved. This law is the result of the transposition into Spanish law of Directive 2019/1937 on the protection of whistleblowers of corruption, better known as the Whistleblower Directive.
This new Law includes among its novelties the need for each entity to create an Internal Information System (SII), which is the name given to the mailboxes or complaint channels, through which complaints are made and the receipt of information that may constitute breaches of the legal system.
The Agency advises and assists in the implementation of these internal information systems to those administrations that request it, which can be articulated through the signing of a collaboration protocol between the Agency and the entity. The Agency also provides free of charge the technology necessary for the development of these reporting channels or mailboxes.
So far, more than 70 agreements and protocols have been signed, among others, from large administrations such as the Provincial Council of Castellón or the City Council of Valencia, to others of small size such as the City Council of La Yesa with just 120 inhabitants.
The Law includes the obligation on the part of the entity or the administration to appoint a natural person or a collegiate body as responsible for the management of the Internal Information System as well as the procedure to be followed. Both the appointment and the dismissal of these responsible must be notified within ten working days to the competent authority or body, which in the case of the Valencian Community, is the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency.
To this end, the Agency has created the Register of Managers of Internal Information Systems (RRSII) in which both the appointments and dismissals of these managers will be centralized, keeping an updated management of the data.
The deadline for the creation of Internal Information Systems in the case of public administrations ends on June 13 except for those municipalities with less than 10,000 inhabitants whose term is extended until December 1.
The process of communication to the Agency of the Head of the Internal Information System can be done electronically at any time, since the procedure is open throughout the year.
Title IX of Law 2/2023 states that the lack of having an information system of an inmate is a very serious infraction, while the lack of notification of the designation of the person or collegiate body responsible for the system is a minor infraction, which carry sanctions included in article 65 of the Law.
Valencia, May 30, 2023.- The president of the College of Secretaries, Auditors and Treasurers of the Local Administration of the province of Alicante (COSITAL-Alicante), Santiago Gómez; and the director of the Agency, Joan Llinares, have signed a collaboration agreement between both entities.
Among the planned collaborative actions are training activities in areas such as fraud and corruption prevention, integrity and public ethics, the protection of whistleblowers or reporting channels and anti-fraud plans.
Both institutions will also support each other in promoting a culture of good practices and rejection of fraud and corruption in the design, execution and evaluation of public policies, and in the management of public resources.
Likewise, they have committed to promote and disseminate a culture of ethics and public integrity and collaborate in the regulation and management of conflicts of interest.
If, within the framework of the COSITAL-Alicante agreement, it becomes aware of the existence of persons reporting corruption who suffer, or could suffer, reprisals as a result, COSITAL will inform the Agency so that it can grant them, where appropriate, protection.
Finally, COSITAL-Alicante will include in a visible place within its website, as well as in other media, the link to the Agency’s complaints mailbox from which any person can report any fact or irregularity constituting fraud and corruption that has been committed within the public administrations of the Valencian Community and that can provide evidence of it.
