169 people participate in the course taught by the Agency together with the Ministry of Participation, the FVMP and the councils of Alicante, Valencia and Castellón

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València, march 29, 2023.- The Agency has participated in the online training session “Law 2/2023, a paradigm shift in the fight against corruption. Impact on the Valencian Community. (Law 2/2023, of February 20, regulating the protection of people who report on regulatory infractions and the fight against corruption)”, organized together with the Ministry of Participation of the Generalitat Valenciana, the Valencian Federation of Municipalities and Provinces, and the councils of Alicante, Castellón and Valencia.

Antoni Lorente, Regional Secretary of Transparency of the Ministry of Participation was in charge of making the presentation of the day.

The director of the Agency, Joan Llinares, presented the pillars of the anti-corruption architecture in the Valencian Community and the paradigm shift involved in the approval and entry into force of Law 2/2023, of February 20, regulating the protection of people who report on regulatory infractions and the fight against corruption.

Javier Alama, head of the Information Systems service, shared the tool used for the creation of the internal channel for the reception of information in all the entities obliged by the new law.

The session has had 169 participants via online who have asked questions related to the bodies responsible for creating the information system, the figure of the person responsible for the system, as well as the procedure to follow for the management of the internal channel.

The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency has delivered the 2022 Activity Report to the President, Síndics and members of the Mesa de les Corts Valencianes

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Valencia, March 28, 2023.- The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency has delivered the Activity Report corresponding to the year 2022 that has taken place in the Saló dels Espills de les Corts Valencianes thus complying with the mandate contained in article 22 of Law 11/2016 on the creation of the Agency.

The director of the Agency, Joan Llinares, has delivered the two volumes of the Report, one in Valencian and one in Spanish, to the president of Les Corts, Enric Morera. The event was also attended by the Syndics of all the parliamentary groups and the Mesa de les Corts.

The Report includes the activity carried out by the Agency during 2022 in the area of training, prevention and documentation; the legal and whistleblower protection area; analysis and research; administration, recruitment and human resources and communication.

After the act of delivery of the Report, the director of the Agency and the rest of the Consell de Direcció of the Agency has attended the media in the Press Room of Les Corts.

You can consult an executive summary of the 2022 Report in the following link.

You can consult the 2022 Report in the following link.

The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency together with 33 European integrity and protection authorities are constituted in Rome in the NEIWA Network

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Rome, 24 March 2023.- The European Network of Integrity and Protection Authorities for Whistleblowers of Corruption has been  officially constituted this Friday in Rome as NEIWA Network.

This Network began operating in 2018 informally as a platform for cooperation and exchange of knowledge and experiences in the field of integrity and protection of whistleblowers. The approval of the European Directive 1937/2019 served as the basis for the constitution of this Network among those European agencies and authorities that were assigned these competences.

Currently, a total of 34 authorities belonging  to Member States of the European Union make up the Network, among which is the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, as well as authorities from candidate countries to join the European Union and EFTA (European Free Trade Association).

In the course of the  8th General Assembly of NEIWA that is being held on March 23 and 24  in Rome, the Network has approved its formal constitution as  well as the  adoption of a regulation  and to give structure to  the organization and regulate the  operation of the Network.

Laura Valli, representative of Italy’s National Anti-Corruption Authority (ANAC),  has also been elected as president of NEIWA and it has been agreed that the next meeting of the General Assembly will be held in Valencia.

Within the agenda of the General Assembly, the  Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency has been  invited to make a presentation on how its complaints mailbox works and what is its experience in the management of this channel that has received more than 1,000 complaints in the 5 years it has been in operation.

The director of the Agency, Joan Llinares, and the head of the Agency’s information systems,  Javier Alamá, have been in charge of  making the complaints mailbox known to the rest of the  European authorities.

After the presentation, the Director of the Agency stated that “the fact that 33 European authorities for the fight against corruption and the protection of whistleblowers have shown interest in knowing how the AVAF complaints box works reinforces the work we are doing”.

“The Agency’s complaints mailbox is becoming a benchmark and so in November we were also presenting this mailbox invited by the group of experts of the European Commission. This mailbox is the one we are helping to implement in Valencian public institutions with which we have already signed collaboration agreements. The Provincial Council of Valencia, Provincial Council of Castellón, entities such as VAERSA or ISTEC,  and with municipalities such as those of Valencia, L’Eliana, Riba-roja, San Vicente del Raspeig, Dénia or La Yesa that have already incorporated as their external channel of complaints the mailbox of the Agency “.

The NEIWA Network currently consists of the following members:

                         

Belgium         Federal Ombudsman

Flemish Ombudsman

German speaking community Ombudsman

Ombudsman of the Brussels-Capital Region

Bulgaria         Commission for Anti-Corruption and Illegal Assets Forfeiture

Croatia           Ombudswoman

Czech Republic Ministry of Justice, Conflict of Interests and Anti-Corruption Department

Denmark        Data Protection Authority

Estonia          Ministry of Justice, Criminal Policy Department

Finland           Ministry of Justice

France            Défenseur des Droits

Germany     Federal Office of Justice of Germany

Greece           National Transparency Authority

Hungary         Commissioner for Fundamental Rights

Iceland       Prime Minister‘s Office

Ireland          Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission

                      GSOC Protected Disclosure Unit (PDU)

Italy                National Anticorruption Authority (ANAC)

Latvia             State Chancellery, Contact Point of Whistleblowers

                       Corruption Prevention and Combating Bureau

Lithuania       General Prosecutor’s Office

Montenegro   Agency for Prevention of Corruption

Netherlands The Dutch Whistleblower Authority

Portugal         Prosecutor’s General Office 

Romania        Ministry of Justice

Slovakia         Prime Minister’s Office (Corruption Prevention Department)         

                        Whistleblower Protection Office

Slovenia         Commission for the Prevention of Corruption

Spain              Ministry of Justice

Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency (AVAF)

Anti-Fraud Office of Catalonia (OAC)

Prevention and Fight against Corruption Office of the Balearic Islands

Andalusian Office against Fraud and Corruption

Sweden          Swedish Work Environment Authority