The blog of the Valencian Antifraud Agency awarded at the Golden Legal Blogs Awards 2022

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Salamanca, February 7, 2023. – The article “Los olvidados del TREBEP” published in the “AVAF Blog” and written by the lawyer of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, Juan Vega Felgueroso, and by the training technician Pilar Moreno García, has been awarded in the 4th Edition of the Golden Legal Blogs Awards in the category of best legal article.

The awards ceremony took place in the Aula Salinas of the Building of the Major Schools  of the University of Salamanca and it was the rector of the University, Ricardo Rivero, in charge of presenting the award.

These awards have two categories: one for the best legal blog in which the blog of Ignasi Beltrán de Heredia Ruiz was the winner; and a second category of legal articles of excellence in which the first prize was the blog of Diego Gómez Fernández, and the second prize was the article of the Agency’s blog.

The article on “Los olvidados del TREBEP” according to the jury “faces a side of great public sensitivity, overcoming the fogs of the legislator, offering perspectives of approach oriented to vindicate the strength of professional ethics”.

These Awards aim to help disseminate knowledge in the legal field through a format of great impact such as blogs. In this edition has increased the number of participants who have submitted to these awards passing to the final phase more than 40 candidatures.

These Awards are promoted by the Magistrate of the Administrative Litigation of the Superior Court of Asturias, José Ramón Chaves, together with the Globoversia Group, a community of non-profit cultural interests and the sponsorship of the Amarante Publishing House as well as the Automaticos Tineo Foundation.

You can read the award-winning article here:

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The City Council of Alzira and the Agency sign a protocol to launch the complaint mailboxes and the Integrity Plan

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Alzira, January 30, 2023.- The mayor of Alzira, Diego Gómez i García and the director of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, Joan Llinares, have signed a collaboration protocol between both institutions that will help promote the Integrity Plan in which the City Council of Alzira is working

Within the general lines of the Integrity Plan, the implementation of both internal and external complaint mailboxes is contemplated, thus complying with the requirement of the European Directive 1937/2019 on the protection of people who report breaches of Union Law, better known as the Whistleblowers Directive.

The City Council of Alzira will enable as an external channel of complaints the complaint box of the Valencia Anti-Fraud Agency which will be visible on the municipal website; A mailbox that guarantees the confidentiality of whistleblowers, as well as allows 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 formative nature where the staff of the municipality 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.

Likewise, the Agency will offer advice and support for the preparation of the plan of anti-fraud measures necessary to be eligible for European Next Generation funds  as set out in Ministerial Order 1030/2021 by which the management system of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan is configured.

The mayor of Alzira, Diego García said that “our commitment to transparency in management and the fight against corruption in the administrative files of the city council is reinforced with the signing of this agreement with which we receive the support and help of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency to improve the image of Alzira at the institutional level and as a reference in the Valencian Community in the improvement of the relationship with our citizens.”

For his part, the director of the Agency, Joan Llinares, said that “it is positive to see how every day more municipalities and institutions begin to equip themselves with instruments to fight fraud and corruption and they do so not only with reactive measures such as reporting channels, but also from prevention with training and awareness actions. “

“It is undoubtedly good news that the City Council of Alzira will have complaint boxes, both internal and external, but more important is if possible that it has committed to approve a municipal Integrity Plan,” added Llinares.

The 5 regional anti-fraud agencies and offices meet in Palma de Mallorca to discuss the impact of the future Whistleblower Law

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Mallorca, January 19, 2023.-

On January 18, the heads of the regional anti-fraud and corruption agencies and offices met in Palma de Mallorca to coordinate the actions to be followed on the occasion of the entry into force of the Law that transposes into the Spanish legal system known as the Whistleblower Directive.

This European Directive 1937/2019 of the European Parliament refers to the protection of persons who report breaches of Union law.

In addition to the staff that holds the direction in each of the agencies and offices, they were present at the meeting of the legal services to discuss the impact that the state law that is currently in the Senate after its approval by the Congress of Deputies may have on the respective laws and regulations.

The meeting held at the headquarters of the Balearic Parliament was attended by the Antifrau Office of Catalonia; the Office for the Prevention and Fight against Corruption of the Balearic Islands; the Andalusian Office against Fraud and Corruption; the Office of Good Practices and Anticorruption of Navarra and the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency.