The Agency participates in the delivery of the Infoparticipa Stamps that CEU University grants to the most transparent municipalities and councils

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Friday, 11 November, 2022.- The Observatory of Governance, Transparency and CSR of the CEU Cardenal Herrera University (CEU UCH) delivered the Infoparticipa Stamps to the most transparent municipalities and councils in the Valencian Community.

 

After evaluating during 2021 a total of 52 transparency indicators on the websites of Valencian local entities, only 6 of the 542 Valencian municipalities and 2 of the 3 councils have met the requirements to obtain this Seal that accredits their transparency.

 

The rector of CEU UCH, Vicente Navarro de Luján, presided over the award ceremony, held in the auditorium of the Alfara del Patriarca campus. The mayors and councilors of the municipalities of Onda, Denia, Rafelbunyol, Elche, Valencia and Gandía, and representatives of the Provincial Councils of Valencia and Alicante have collected the Infoparticipa 2021 Stamps.

 

Together with the rector of the CEU UCH, the ceremony was chaired by the regional secretary of Participation and Transparency of the Generalitat Valenciana, Antoni Llorente; the deputy of Open Government and Participation of the Diputación de Valencia, Mentxu Balaguer; the head of the Transparency Service of the Diputación de Alicante, Antoni Canet; and the director of Analysis and Research of the Agència Valenciana Antifrau, Gustavo Segura.

 

The municipality of Onda, with 52 indicators, is the municipality of the Valencian Community that has the highest percentage of compliance (100%), followed by Gandía which, with 51 indicators, reaches 98% compliance.

 

Valencia and Elche, with 50 indicators, reach 96% compliance. Denia, with 47 indicators (90%), and Rafelbunyol, with 46 indicators and 88% compliance, complete the list of municipalities that have received the Infoparticipa 2021 seal at CEU UCH.

 

As in previous editions of the study, the CEU UCH Observatory has also analyzed the websites of the three provincial councils: both the Provincial Council of Valencia and the Provincial Council of Alicante comply with 47 indicators (96%) of transparency.

 

For its part, the Provincial Council of Castellón, with 27 indicators and 55.10% compliance, does not reach the level necessary to obtain the Seal in this 2021 edition.

 

The Infoparticipa methodology
The Infoparticipa Stamps are awarded in the Valencian Community by the Observatory of Governance, Transparency and CSR of the CEU UCH, together with the ComSET Research Group (Sound, Strategic Communication and Transparency) of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, following the methodology of the Infoparticipa Map (https://www.mapainfoparticipa.com/index/mapa/), where the results of the Valencian Community are integrated.

 

Institutional meeting of the Agency with the Economic and Social Committee of the Valencian Community

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Castellón, November 2, 2022.- The director of the Agency, Joan Llinares, met in Castellón with the President of the Economic and Social Committee of the Valencian Community, Luis Arturo León, with the aim of establishing institutional relations between both organizations.

As a result of this meeting, several avenues of collaboration have been opened that will materialize in the coming months in a framework agreement.

The Economic and Social Committee is a consultative body of the Consell de la Generalitat Valenciana and of all public institutions of the Valencian Community in economic, socio-labor and employment matters.

ISTEC and the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency sign a collaboration agreement to develop a framework for integrity and public ethics

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Burjassot, October 25, 2022.- The commercial company Infraestructures i Serveis de Telecomunicacions i Certificació (ISTEC), pending the Ministry of Finance and Economic Model of the Generalitat Valenciana, and the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency have signed a collaboration agreement for the implementation of activities to prevent fraud and corruption and the promotion of ethics and public integrity.


The agreement was signed by the managing director of ISTEC, Juan Alegre Sanahuja, and by the director of the Agency, Joan Llinares, atISTEC’s facilities in Burjassot. This public company constitutes as a telecommunications operator to provide electronic communications services to operators controlled by public administrations .


Among the actions contemplated by the agreement is to comply with the requirements of the European Directive 2019/1937 on the protection of persons who report on infringements of Union Law, with the recognition by ISTEC as an external channel of their complaints the Complaints Mailbox of the Agency and adheres to it ; as well as the Order of the Ministry of Finance and Public Function 1030 of September 29, 2021 on the obligation to equip itself with Anti-Fraud Plans.

 

In order for the Complaint Mailbox of the Agency to act as an external channel of denunciations of ISTEC thisentity undertakes to include in a visible place within its website, or any other support it deems appropriate, the link of the AVAF Complaints Mailbox together with the clear and precise information about its function and purpose.

 

In addition to the external whistleblowing channel, the Agency will collaborate with ISTEC for the implementation of its internal complaints channel, in order to comply with other requirements of the European Directive.

 

ISTEC also undertakes to approve its own Integrity Plan that will have the collaboration, assistance and exchange of information by the Agency. This Integrity Plan shall contain an institutional declaration of integrity; incorporating institutional integrity into strategic planning; the regulation and management of conflicts of interest; the training of ISTEC personnel in integrity or the promotion and dissemination of the culture of ethics and public integrity, among other issues.

 

The general director of Infrastructures i Serveis de Telecomunicacions i Certificació (ISTEC), Juan alegre Sanahuja, has highlighted “the importance of having the knowledge and means of the AVAF to develop a solid social structure of integrity and fight against fraud and thereby strengthen the confidence of society in the proper use and management of public funds by the public sector”.


For his part, the director of the Agency, Joan Llinares, has declared that “the signing of this agreement with ISTEC is added to the one we reached a few months ago with VAERSA and both show how the Valencian instrumental public sector wants to provide public integrity frameworks in the exercise of its functions which will result in the creation of higher levels of ethics and public integrity that are a guarantee for the all citizens”.