The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency approves the Code of Ethics and Conduct for its staff and will create an Ethics Committee

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València, February 18, 2022.- The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency has approved a Code of Ethics and Conduct that includes the ethical principles and values ​​of good governance that must inform all the Agency’s actions and will regulate impartiality, confidentiality and conduct that must necessarily be observed by the staff, especially with regard to the conflict of interest.
The Code is structured in seven chapters, forty articles, an additional provision, a transitional provision and two final provisions and is an internal instrument of self-regulation and mandatory compliance.
Chapter III regulates the system of incompatibilities to be applied to personnel, the management of conflicts of interest or the obligation to submit responsible declarations as mechanisms to guarantee the effectiveness of the principles and rules of conduct contained in the Code. The responsible declarations will be presented to the Agency management and they will include the activity and ownership of goods, obligations and property rights, as well as an annual declaration of income received.
Chapter IV provides for the creation of an Ethics Committee that will ensure the proper application of the code and help resolve all controversies and that will be made up of a maximum of 4 people. Three of these people are external to the AVAF and will be professionals of recognized prestige in the field of defense of ethics, integrity and public transparency, at least one of the three being a lawyer, and one of them must also be part of the AVAF. of the Agency’s Participation Council.
This Ethics Committee will also include an official from the Agency who was elected this morning in a secret vote among the staff themselves.
Chapter V regulates the Agency’s internal complaints mailbox as a channel for receiving complaints and forwarding queries addressed to the Ethics Committee and in which the confidentiality of complainants is guaranteed, as well as the possibility of making complaints. anonymous.

Chapter VI contains the consequences derived from a breach of the Code of Ethics and where a distinction is made between punishable conduct and ethically reprehensible conduct and in Chapter VII mentions the dissemination and training actions that will be carried out to give know the existence of said Code as well as its content by the Agency staff.
The Code of Ethics is available on the Agency’s website and can be accessed at this link:

https://dogv.gva.es/datos/2022/02/18/pdf/2022_1132.pdf

Meeting with the CEO of Vaersa

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The general manager of Vaersa, Ferran García, and the director of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, Joan Llinares, met this morning at the AVAF headquarters together with technical staff from both institutions. Among other issues at the meeting, the Agency’s advice to Vaersa for the preparation of its anti-fraud plan, a mandatory requirement to be able to access European Next Generation funds, was discussed.

The University of Valencia and the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency present the Docufòrum audiovisual on public management planning as a good governance tool

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Valencia, Tuesday, February 8. In the presentation, which was held today at 12:00 noon, in the “Ascensión Chirivella” Hall of Degrees of the Faculty of Law, Jorge Hermosilla, vice-rector for Territorial Projection and Society of the UV; Joan Llinares, director of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency (AVAF); and Rosario Serra, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Law.

The documentary shows the strategic importance of planning, which profoundly reduces management practices based on improvisation, lack of general vision, proposals inconsistent with the specific functions of specific departments, facilitates transparency and accountability of the Institutions , and acts as an element of prevention of fraudulent and corrupt practices of public management.

Vice-rector Jorge Hermosilla has underlined the importance of institutional collaboration, since “this documentary is the result of the joint work of two institutions at the service of Valencian society, such as the University of Valencia and the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, both aware of the importance of investigate, reflect and disseminate concepts such as ethics, transparency and good practices”. He added that strategic planning applied to public management is a very interesting instrument for improving management itself and its results.

For his part, the director of the AVAF, Joan Llinares, pointed out that “planning is a key tool to prevent the risks of corruption in public administrations, since without it, general interests cannot be prioritized, with the culture of improvisation and of “urgent” versus “important”.

“The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency has drawn up a recommendation on the need for planning since the lack of it leaves the door open to other risks such as conflict of interest, unjust enrichment or lack of control of the activity of public institutions”, added Llinares.

Docufòrum is an audiovisual format promoted and designed by the Office of the Vice President for Territorial Projection and Society and produced in high definition (HD) by the Taller d’Audiovisuals (TAU), which addresses current issues and social interest in a documentary style. Docufòrum not only has an informative vocation, but also aims to stimulate debate and social participation. The documentaries, lasting 20 minutes, collect the opinions of specialists from both the University of Valencia and the Valencian social or business sphere.

This documentary has been financed by the Valencian Antifraud Agency, within the collaboration framework agreement signed by both institutions. The person in charge of content has been Anselm Bodoque (AVAF).

Docufòrum is the result of a group work, the technical coordination is carried out by the Support Unit to the Vice-rectorate for Territorial Projection and Society, the scriptwriting of the documentaries is carried out by the professors of the University of Valencia Francesc Martínez (Theory of Languages and Information Sciences) and Rafa Roca (Catalan Philology), and the realization is undertaken by the Taller d’Audiovisuals de la Universitat (TAU). For its part, the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, through the Training Service, carried out the preparation of the preliminary aspects referring to the main questions that could be dealt with regarding the planning of public management, the selection of a basic bibliography in the matter and the proposal of specialists.

The complete audiovisual is available at the following link: