This roadmap is made in light of the following considerations:
Public integrity is defined by the OECD General Council Recommendation on Public Integrity of 26 January 2017 as "consistent alignment with, and compliance with, shared values, principles and ethical standards, to uphold and prioritise public interests, over private interests, in the public sector". The document also calls on all states adhering to the recommendation to develop a coherent and comprehensive system of public integrity with which to:

  1. To demonstrate commitment at the highest political and management levels within the public sector to strengthen public integrity.
  2. Clarify institutional responsabilities.
  3. Develop a strategic approach to risk mitigation.
  4. Setting strict standards of conduct for staff.
  5. Promoting a culture of public integrity.
  6. Promote a professional public sector based on meritocracy, dedicated to values and good governance of the public service.
  7. Provide staff with information, training, guidance and advice on public integrity standards in the workplace.
  8. Foster an organisational culture of transparency.
  9. Implement a risk management and control framework.
  10. Ensure that enforcement mechanisms provide appropriate responses to all suspected breaches of integrity rules.
  11. Strengthen the role of external monitoring and control.
  12. Promote transparency and stakeholder participation in accountability and the general interest.

In this sense, it is the obligation of the Universitat de València, as a public administration that manages public funds and, specifically, the Next Generation EU fund (requalification of SUE, UNIDIGITAL, PIREP, etc.), to combat fraud, corruption, conflicts of interest and any illegal activity that harms its financial interests, as well as to promote integrity, accountability and proper management of public affairs and public assets. This is evidenced, day by day, in the close collaboration with the Social Council; or, year after year, in the audit reports of the Audit Office, the General Intervention of the Generalitat Valenciana (Valencian Government) and the reports of the Internal Control Office.

And in compliance with the following legal basis:
Law 11/2016, of 28 November, on the Agency for the Prevention and Fight against Fraud and Corruption of the Valencian Community, which includes Valencian public universities and related or dependent public sector entities in the Agency's scope of action.
Law 9/2017, of 8 November, on Public Sector Contracts, which transposes into Spanish law the European Parliament and Council Directives 2014/23/EU and 2014/24/EU, of 26 February 2014, which introduces a special rule relating to the fight against corruption and prevention of conflicts of interest, imposing on contracting authorities the obligation to take appropriate measures to combat fraud, favouritism, corruption, as well as to prevent, detect and effectively resolve conflicts of interest that may arise in tendering procedures.
Directive (EU) 2019/1937 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2019 on the protection of persons who report breaches of Union law, which establishes the obligation for Member States to ensure that private and public sector legal entities establish internal whistleblowing and follow-up channels and procedures.
The Order of the Ministry of Finance and Public Administration HFP/1030/2021, of 29 September, which configures the management system of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR), which includes in its scope of application all public sector entities and any other agents involved in the implementation of the PRTR as recipients of funds. This Order, in response to the European Union's growing concern for the proper management of its budget funds by the Member States, aims to protect the financial interests of the European Union by urging the decision-making and executing entities to incorporate into their internal management and control environment the specific management principles or criteria of the PRTR contained in Article 2 and, among them, the "reinforcement of mechanisms for the prevention, detection and correction of fraud, corruption, corruption, fraudulent behaviour, corruption and other forms of corruption", In accordance with Article 6 of the PRTR, they must have an "Anti-Fraud Action Plan" to ensure and declare that, in their respective fields of action, the corresponding funds have been used in accordance with the applicable rules, in particular with regard to the prevention, detection and correction of fraud, corruption and conflicts of interest.
The Guide on the Public Integrity Plan: Roadmap and Facilitating Annexes, dated 15 November 2021, drawn up by the Agency for the Prevention and Fight against Fraud and Corruption of the Valencian Community in the exercise of its advisory and consultative role, which proposes a minimum content for the public integrity plans of the entities included in its scope of action, having integrated among its general lines the requirements and guidelines related to the PRTR.
In view of the above and from the assumption and conviction, with historical roots in the UV, of the importance of promoting values such as integrity and public ethics, honesty, exemplarity, transparency, the promotion of a culture of good practices; and the rejection of fraud and corruption in the management of public resources; in order to avoid moral deterioration, economic impoverishment and damage to the university community, citizens and Valencian society, the Governing Council of the Universitat de València approves this Roadmap of the Universitat de València on measures of public integrity, prevention and the fight against fraud, corruption and conflicts of interest.