Calpe Town Council now has an Anti-Fraud Measures Plan, a document that includes provisions for the prevention, detection, correction and prosecution of fraud, corruption and conflict of interest.
This is a requirement of the European Union for all public administrations receiving funds from the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, through which Next Generation funds are managed, to ensure that such aid is used in accordance with anti-fraud rules. According to the EU Resilience and Recovery Mechanism Regulation, Member States are obliged to take appropriate measures to prevent, detect and correct fraud and corruption and to take legal action to recover funds that may have been misappropriated.
The measures included in this Anti-Fraud Plan will be applied to all persons of Calpe Town Council involved in the management of public money and, specifically, to all those who have any kind of relation with the design, management, elaboration or execution of the projects financed by the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.
Although this mechanism was created with the aim of fighting against fraud, corruption, and conflict of interest in Next Generation funds, it can also be applied to any other project implemented by Calpe Town Council.
The Anti-Fraud Measures Plan includes the creation of a complaints mailbox so that citizens can report facts that may constitute fraud or irregularities in relation to projects carried out by the Calpe Town Council. Complaints may be submitted through the municipal website - calp.es - anonymously or by entering your personal details.
Likewise, in order to guarantee the proper application of this plan, the Anti-Fraud Committee has been created, made up of different municipal technicians, which will be in charge of, among other functions, periodically evaluating the risk of fraud and ensuring that there is an effective internal control to prevent and detect possible fraud, opening an informative file in the event of any suspicion and resolving it, as well as adopting the appropriate corrective measures if it is concluded that fraud has taken place.
Recently the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism has given the go-ahead to the Calpe 2026 Tourism Sustainability Plan, which will involve an investment of 2,001,722 euros within the second call for proposals for Tourism Sustainability Plans in Destinations of the European Union's Next Generation funds to be financed through these European aids.