Intervention

Situations in which the Anti-Fraud Office may not intervene

• The Anti-Fraud Office has no legal authority outside Catalonia.
• It is not competent to intervene in cases of tax fraud and fraudulent trading, in company relationships that arise between companies and private individuals, or in matters of a private nature deriving from commerce and consumption.
• It cannot perform functions that correspond to the judicial authority or the Public Prosecution Service or judicial Police, nor may it make inquiries into matters that are the subject of investigations.

What sectors can the Office intervene in?

The Anti-Fraud Office can intervene in the following areas:

The public sector of Catalonia:

• Administration of the Government of Catalonia (Generalitat), its bodies, attached entities and dependent public companies.
• Local entities: town and city councils, provincial councils, county (comarcal) councils, metropolitan authorities, associations of municipalities, consortiums and all other entities and bodies that make up the local Administration.
• The Parliament of Catalonia, as regards administrative activity and asset management.
• Statutory entities and independent authorities.
• Public universities and their instrumental bodies.
• Public companies.
• Consortiums.
• Public or private foundations in which public bodies participate.
• Other instrumental entities in public or private law, linked to or dependent upon Catalan Administrations.

Private companies and entities and the natural persons who manage public services, execute public works or receive subsidies.

In cases of possible infringements by entities that are part of the private sector, when the non-compliance or irregularity reported is limited to the territorial scope of Catalonia.