The AVAF exposes its work as a library and documentation center at the Spanish Information and Documentation Conference 2023

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Granada. – June 1, 2023

The Documentation Service of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency participated last June 2023 in the Spanish Information and Documentation Conference 2023 held in Granada.

María Teresa López Ferrer, head of the Documentation and Reports Service, and Francisco Xavier Saá Úbeda, head of the Agency’s Documentation Support department, presented a poster at the conference about the AVAF Library and Documentation Center.

It was highlighted, first of all, that article 29 of the AVAF Regulation establishes that “the Agency will have a specialized documentary fund in the prevention and fight against fraud and corruption, and in the promotion of integrity and good practices in the administration, with the aim of building a reference documentation center (…) that is at the service of citizens”.

Starting from this legal imperative, the Agency’s library and documentation center, as explained in the panel, was created to contribute to the creation of a social culture of rejection of corruption.

In this way, the Agency puts qualified information at the service of citizens both to be able to defend their fundamental rights against fraud and corruption, and to have access to information, education and culture in general.

Power in your hands: libraries, archives, museums was the motto of the conference. The motto was intended to highlight the power and transformation capacity of these cultural institutions for guaranteeing democratic access to information, leisure and culture. The JEID23 were organized on June 1 and 2 by the Spanish Federation of Archival, Library, Documentation and Museum Societies (FESABID) and the Faculty of Communication and Documentation of the University of Granada, and professionals from archives, libraries, museums, documentalists in general, as well as Information and Documentation Degree students.

 

The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency provides training on conflict of interest to those responsible for the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism of the Generalitat Valenciana

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The AVAF has given a conference/workshop on managing the risk of conflict of interest at the request of the General Directorate of Government Action of the Generalitat Valenciana for the people who hold the direction of Programs for the Management of European Funds in the eleven Consellerias , as well as staff from LABORA, IVACE and Turismo Comunitat Valenciana.

The Agency’s Training Service, made up of Anselm Bodoque, head of the Service, Pilar Moreno and Marita Oliver, area technicians, energized the workshop in which conflict of interest was studied in depth, understood as the situation in which The impartial and objective exercise of the functions of the public employee has been compromised for family, affective, political or national affinity reasons, economic interest or for any other direct or indirect reason of personal interest.

Throughout the four hours of training, the risk of conflict of interest as a prelude to corruption and the existing tools to address it have been studied in depth.

The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency has several publications on conflicts of interest where the following stand out:

 

 

The training has had the very active participation and interest of more than 35 management managers of the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism of the Generalitat Valenciana. Julia Moreno (GVA Presidency) and Olga García-Pozuelo (Department of Agriculture) will be the facilitators and promoters of the day by the Generalitat Valenciana.

The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency provides training at the Center for Legal Studies

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Gustavo Segura, director of Analysis and Investigation of the AVAF, has participated in the course of the 61st promotion of access to the tax career on Wednesday, May 17, 2023.

“Crimes against the Public Administration” has been the training module taught by the AVAF in which the participants have been able to learn in detail about this type of crime during the theoretical-practical phase of the course.

The 61st promotion is made up of 100 trainee prosecutors, 73 women and 27 men.

The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency has been present in previous training courses for access to the tax career to publicize the role of offices and agencies in the fight against fraud and corruption, such as the round table held on June 1, 2022 in Madrid.