The Valencia Federation of Municipalities and Provinces and the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency will collaborate to help city councils develop their anti-fraud plans

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The president of the Valencian Federation of Provincial Municipalities, Rubén Alfaro, and the director of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, Joan Llinares, have held a meeting to establish ways of collaboration to help city councils to develop their anti-fraud plans.

The FVMP will inform all Valencian municipalities of the need to have an active anti-fraud plan of measures as of January 1, 2022 and different meetings will be held with municipalities and councils for the implementation of said tool by the consistories.

The president of the FVMP, Rubén Alfaro, has indicated that “it is about the landing in our consistories of a tool that will ensure the proper use of funds from Europe. Another step towards integrity, transparency and good governance in all public policies ”. In addition, he added that “from the FVMP we will put all the tools that are within our reach to facilitate this work for our municipalities”.

As published in the BOE last October, through Order 1030/2021 of the Ministry of Finance, “every entity, decision-maker or executor, that participates in the execution of the Recovery and Transformation Plan measures must have a Plan anti-fraud measures ”.

Any administration or even private intermediaries must establish risk maps, declarations of absence of conflict of interest, ethical codes, complaint mailboxes, alert systems, training courses for their managers or gift and confidentiality policies.

“The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency wants to help municipalities and provinces in the preparation of public integrity plans that have become a requirement after the approval of the Order of the Ministry of Finance 1030/2021 as a requirement to access funds Next Generation. To this end, the Agency has prepared the Guide “Public integrity plan: roadmap and facilitating annexes” which we have delivered this morning to the President of the FVMP “, declared Joan Llinares

The Valencia City Council is the first Valencian public institution that will connect its website to the complaints box of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency

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València, november 19, 2021.- The Valencia City Council, represented by the Deputy Mayor and Councilor for Transparency and Open Government, Elisa Valía and the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, with representation of its director, Joan Llinares, have signed a collaboration agreement whereby both institutions undertake to work in different areas of prevention and the fight against corruption.

One of the most outstanding aspects of the agreement is that in order to comply with one of the requirements derived from the European Directive 2019/1937 regarding the protection of people who report infringements of Union Law, the Valencia City Council recognizes As an external channel for complaints, the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency’s complaint mailbox and will link from its website to the AVAF mailbox.

The Directive states that all public administrations and public sector entities must enable both external and internal reporting channels. In the case of external channels, this requirement would be met by linking directly from the website of the administration or institution in question to the complaints box of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency.

The Valencia City Council has been the first administration in the entire Valencian Community to comply in this way with the requirement of the European Directive that requires setting up external complaint mailboxes. With regard to internal channels, AVAF will collaborate with the City Council for their implementation.

The agreement also includes other actions such as the assistance of the Agency in the implementation of the Integrity Plan of the Valencia City Council, the preparation of generic risk catalogs or collaboration in dissemination and training actions on the need and content of the Plan of Integrity.

For the coordination of all the actions, a Coordination Commission will be set up, which will meet during the third four-month period of each year to evaluate the activities carried out and propose new institutional collaboration actions for the following year.

“In recent years, we have managed to raise the reputational projection of the city and from the Valencia City Council we work to continue articulating mechanisms that help prevent fraud, thinking about the future, so that we never have to live dark years at a reputational level as those we went through not so long ago ”. Elisa Valía, Councilor for Transparency of the City Council, affirmed.

“From the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency we congratulate the Valencia City Council for being the first Valencian public administration that complies with the requirement of having an external complaints box. I also take this opportunity to encourage the rest of the institutions so that with the AVAF and we can help them in complying with the requirements of the European Directive 2019/1937 whose deadline for transposition into the Spanish legal system ends on December 17 ”, said Joan Llinares, director of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency.

“The AVAF has among its functions that of collaborating with public administrations and entities of the Valencian public sector in the prevention and fight against corruption and that of working together to create public ethics and integrity,” added Llinares.

You can consult the agreement at the following link