The Anti-Fraud Office of Catalonia organized, together with the Barcelona Provincial Council, the conference 'Compliance and integrity in public entities' which was held on March 23 and 24 in Barcelona. During the Congress, the final report of the Compliance and Integrity Project was presented, a document with the objective of promoting a culture of compliance and integrity in various types of public sector entities (public commercial companies, public entities of a business nature, consortiums) within the scope of action of the Anti-Fraud Office.
Members of the universities that, through a collaboration agreement, developed the project participated in the Congress: professors from the Law departments of the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), of the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), experts from the Anti-Fraud Office of Catalonia, as well as other individual academics. Several professionals from entities of the institutional public sector of Catalonia and a team of professors from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia also participated in the project and in the Congress.
Lectures and presentations
Inaugural presentation. The control of ethics and integrity systems by the Court of Accounts (in Spanish). Miguel Ángel Vaz-Serra, Technical Deputy Director of the Second Audit Department of the Court of Auditors
Contents, conclusions, recommendations and methodology of the final report. Compliance and integrity in public entities. Presentation of the final project report (in Catalan). Adán Nieto, professor of Criminal Law at UCLM, Inma Valeije, professor of Criminal Law at USC, Joan Baucells, professor of Criminal Law at UAB, Luis Miguel Vioque, pre-doctoral fellow at UCLM, and Elisenda Escoda, Prevention technician of Anti-Fraud and coordinator of the compliance and integrity project in public entities
Reflections on the conclusions of the project. The role of the so-called agendas for transparency in the prevention of corruption (in Spanish). Fernando Vázquez-Portomeñe, Professor of Criminal Law at USC
Reflections on the conclusions of the project. Compliance and integrity in public sector entities in Catalonia. "Revolving doors" (in Spanish). Dulce Santana, Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
The experience of Italian public companies. Relationships between anti-corruption regulations and regulations on criminal liability of entities. The role of the Supervisory Body and the complaints system (in Spanish). Mara Chilosi, President of the Associazione dei Componenti degli Organismi di Vigilanza ex D.Legs. 231/2001 (AODV)
The Italian experience. The implementation in Italy of the European directive on the protection of whistleblowers (in Italian). Nicoletta Parisi, Professor of International Law at the Catholic University of the Sacro Cuore and former member of the Board of the Italian National Anti-Corruption Authority
Relations between public administrations and instrumental entities of the public sector. List of Barcelona City Council and its instrumental entities. First phase. Commercial companies with 100% municipal capital (in Spanish). Rosa M. Sánchez, Director of the Analysis Services of the Management Body of the Ethics and Good Governance Mailbox of Barcelona City Council
Relations between public administrations and instrumental entities of the public sector. Relations between public administrations and the instrumental entities of the public sector of the AMB (in Catalan). Gemma Calvet, Director of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area (AMB) Transparency Agency
Relations between public administrations and instrumental entities of the public sector. Relations between administrations and entities of the instrumental public sector (in Catalan). Olinda Anía, Deputy Director General of Transparency and Interest Groups of the Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan Government)
Relations between public administrations and instrumental entities of the public sector. Improving the governance of the institutional public sector of the Generalitat of Catalonia: Would the creation of a specialized and permanent unit within its departments for the monitoring, control and assessment? (in Catalan). Anna Ribas, Deputy Director General of the Economic Regime and Procurement of the Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan Government)
