Apr42023

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

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.

Apr42023

The Valencian Antifraud Agency collaborates with the IVASPE in the selective courses of technical and superior level of Local Police

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The Valencian Institute of Public Security and Emergencies (IVASPE), an organization with 32 years of experience and which has professionally trained more than 70,000 police officers and emergency personnel in the Valencian Community, has included in its selective courses of technical and superior level of Local Police, training sessions given by the Valencian Antifraud Agency (AVAF).

On this occasion, we have participated in the training of the 45th and 46th editions of the selective course of the technical scale for access to the categories of inspector and mayor of the local police and the 46th and 47th editions of the selective course of the scale superior for access to the categories of commissioner and main commissioner of the local police. Both courses promoted by the head of the IVASPE Training Area, Juan Vicente Hernández Pamplona; and coordinated by the mayor of the local police of Elche, José Eugenio Medina Sarmiento.

The training days with the two courses were taught online on March 27 for the Elche group and on April 3 for the Cheste group. On both occasions the training was carried out by the director of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, Joan A. Llinares Gómez, with a conference on “Law 2/2023, a paradigm shift in the fight against corruption. Impact on the Valencian Community”.

The training was based on the obligations derived from Law 2/2023 such as: the implementation of internal channels in the different administrations, the existence of the external complaints channel available in the AVAF since 2018; whistleblower protection, regulated by Law 11/2016 of the Generalitat and Law 2/2023; and the Independent Administrative Authority and its equivalent in the Valencian Community, the AVAF as the competent autonomous authority.

Fifty-eight students from the technical and superior corps of the Local Police participated in the training sessions, coming from 36 municipalities of the Valencian Community.

The training served for the students to learn more about the work of the Agency and its powers, since both institutions collaborate in their actions to improve integrity in the public sector. The participants showed interest in the treatment given to the anonymous complaint, the false complaint and the sanctioning power, being a body that is also familiar with the complaints.

The Agency thanks IVASPE for including these training days in its standardized courses, as well as the interest shown in the functions and powers of the Agency in the interest of greater collaboration and the obligations derived from Law 2/2023.

If you wish to have specialized training in integrity and corruption prevention in your public administration, do not hesitate to write to training@antifraucv.es

Apr32023

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

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”.