The ValencianAnti-Fraud Agency and the Valencian Agency for Territory Protection sign a protocol to launch the complaint boxes and the Integrity Plan

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Valencia, April 4,  2023.- The director of the  Valencian Agency for the Protection of the Territory (AVPT), Manuel Civera Salvador, and the director of the Agency, Joan Llinares, have signed a collaboration protocol between both institutions that will help promote the Integrity Plan in which the Valencian Agency for the Protection of the Territory is working.

Within the general lines of the Integrity Plan, the implementation of complaint mailboxes, both internal and external, is contemplated, thus complying with the requirement of the new Law 2/2023 regulating the protection of people who report on regulatory infractions and the fight against corruption.

With this Law published in the BOE on February 21, the European Directive 1937/2019, on the protection of persons who report breaches of Union Law, better known as the Whistleblowers Directive, is transposed into Spanish law.

The Valencian Agency for the Protection of the Territory will enable as an external channel of complaints the complaint box of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency which will be visible on its website. This mailbox guarantees the confidentiality of whistleblowers as well as allowing the possibility of being able to make complaints anonymously.

The collaboration between both institutions will also extend to other actions and activities such as those of a training nature where AVPT staff will receive training in aspects related to the promotion of ethics and public integrity, as well as the prevention and detection of situations constituting fraud and corruption.

The AVPT Integrity Plan will contain, among others, an institutional declaration of integrity; incorporating institutional integrity into strategic planning; enabling a specific internal whistleblowing channel and connecting to the Agency’s external whistleblowing channel; the regulation and management of conflicts of interest; the training of personnel in integrity or the promotion and dissemination of the culture of ethics and public integrity.

The Agency participates in the International Seminar on Culture of Legality and the Fight against Corruption

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Madrid, March 30, 2023.- The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency has participated in this seminar organized by the Carlos III University of Madrid. The International Seminar “New anti-corruption measures: regulation of lobbying, whistleblowing and the constitution of a state agency” aims to address pending legal measures and reforms in the fight against corruption.

The activity focused on 3 axes: the constitution of a state anti-corruption agency; the transposition of the European Directive for the protection of whistleblowers and the regulation of lobbying in Spain.

The director of the Agency, Joan Llinares, participated in the first table on perspectives on a State Anti-Corruption Agency together with Lourdes Parramón of the Antifrau Office of Catalonia; the professor of the University of Lisbon, Luís de Sousa and the professor of the Complutense University of Madrid, Isabel Wences, who acted as moderator.

Among the participants in the conference were Professor Manuel Villoria; Elisa de la Nuez of the Hay Derecho Foundation; Simona Levi of Xnet-Institute for Democratic Digitalization and Digital Rights; Professor Rafael Rubio or Flor López of the Office of Conflicts of Interest.

The Director General of Public Governance, Clara Mapelli, was in charge of the inaugural conference on the “Commitments in the axis of public integrity of the IV Open Government Plan”.

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.