Validation and Verification of the Anti-Fraud Plan Order HFP/1030/2021 

Order HFP/1030/2021, of 29 September, which configures the management system of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR) and as part of the European Union’s Next Gen Fund policies, has established, among other aspects, the need for organisations that are going to participate in the Recovery Funds to express their commitment to the highest standards in relation to compliance with legal, ethical and moral rules, adopting the necessary measures to prevent and detect fraud, corruption and conflicts of interest. The so-called Anti-Fraud Plans. 

All public and private entities involved in the implementation of the PRTR as recipients of funds must have such plans. This also implies that both the Beneficiaries of the grants and the Awardees of a contract or subcontractors for the execution of Projects or Sub-projects or part of them must have an Anti-Fraud Plan. 

Validation of the Anti-Fraud Plan (Ex Ante) 

The Validation Statement issued by EQA allows the organisation’s commitment to the adoption of the Anti-Fraud Plan and to a series of specific requirements on which the plan will be based to be evidenced to third parties at the time of the application for Funds or immediately afterwards. 

Verification of the Anti-Fraud Plan (Ex Post) 

The Verification Statement issued by EQA allows your organisation to demonstrate to any third party, including administrations, after the application and once the Anti-Fraud Plan has begun to be executed in the organisation, that it has been implemented as planned and is being executed in a suitable and effective manner. 

This validation or verification process is carried out following a regulated process based on the UNE-EN ISO/IEC 17029:2019 standard on requirements for validation and verification bodies in such a way that all interested parties can be confident of the organisations’ compliance with the application requirements. 

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