The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency in the presentation of the Focus Group on the effects of the application of the Transparency Law

Dec132019
Prevention actions Agenda

The main objective of the conference is to create and consolidate a discussion group on transparency and the quality of information from public administrations, making a diagnosis of the current situation of compliance with transparency in local administrations of the Valencian Community; identification of the challenges for the period 2019-2023, models, methodologies and instruments to improve the quality of this information.

It is intended to analyze and make proposals by answering the following questions:

  • What role can Infoparticipa have in the Valencian Community to respond to the current challenges of transparency and quality of information?
  • How can Infoparticipa collaborate with other actors, to promote transparency and the human quality of the information?
  • How to enhance the public utility of Infoparticipa and advance in the objective of turning it into a reference index for local public administrations in Spain, and define new objectives for 2019 to 2023?

In the conference, presented by the director of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, Joan Antoni Llinares and by the co-director of the Observatory of Governance, Transparency and CSR of the CEU Cardenal Herrera University, Hugo Aznar, they spoke about the New indicators and the Media Map by Marta Corcoy from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) team.

The Conference has been organized by the Observatory of Governance, Transparency and CSR of the CEU Cardenal Herrera University and by the Laboratory of Journalism and Communication for Plural Citizenship of the Autonomous University of Barcelona with the collaboration of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency.

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Event «The protection of informants, alerters or whistleblowers does not admit delay» of the CNMC

The National Markets and Competition Commission together with the Blueprint for Free Speech held on Thursday February 13 at 10 am the event entitled “The protection of whistleblowers, whistleblowers or whistleblowers does not admit delay.”

The transposition of the European Directive for the protection of whistleblowers will focus this act, which aims to support all those who disclose irregularities in both the public and private sectors.

The Director of the Agency, Mr. Joan Llinares, participates with an intervention entitled “Information and communication channels: internal-external, private-public”.

You can check the program by following this link.

The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency participates in the framework of the XI Human Rigths and Film Festival, Human Fest 2020

Feb242020
Prevention actions

On February 23, at the headquarters of the Peset Rector’s College, the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency participated in the framework of the XI Human Rights and Film Festival, Humans Fest 2020, with the accompaniment of the director of this edition of the festival Samuel Sebastián. This year, the contest has corruption as its motto, and has included the diffusion of the documentary «Corruption. Harmful Organism ”and subsequent round table, with the presence of the director of the Joan Llinares Agency, the director of Legal Affairs of the Teresa Clemente Agency, the magistrate Joaquim Bosch and Teresa Soler, of the Pandora Box TV production company who made the documentary. The round table was moderated by Ana Maria Fuertes from the Foundation for Justice, the organizing institution of the Festival along with other Valencian institutions.

The diffusion of the documentary and round table dealt with current and essential issues for our society, such as the concept of protection of the whistleblower and their rights, the abuse of power, patronage, the financing of political parties, the costs of corruption, prevention measures and their adoption by political parties. Likewise, there was a debate around the importance of civil society and education in the fight against corruption, and the need not to legitimize corruption through the vote of the electorate.