António Cotrim / Lusa
Almost three years ago law entered into force that requires the creation of internal denunciation channels – something that does not yet exist in São Bento.
Entities and companies with more than 50 workers are required to have INTERNAL ACCOUNTING CHANNELSin Portugal.
The law has already been created in December 2021, has been in force in June 2022. For almost three years the entities have been required to have channels of complaint. Who does not have, is subject to a fine that can reach 125 000 euros.
One of these entities forced to the new rules is exactly the Assembly of the Republic, which has elaborated and approved the law.
But the Assembly of the Republic It is not following the law. There is no denunciation channel for communication of illegal cases of public hiring, capital bleaching, environmental protection, public health, consumer protection, violent and economic and financial crime, among others.
And also There is no code of conduct For your employees and collaborators, reinforces the.
“Parliament does not apply the rules that requires everyone to fulfill”summarizes Paulo Ferreira, who thinks that these situations are already “anecdotic”.
“It is amazed that, in these two and a half years, Parliament-which makes the laws, which forces everyone to fulfill-has not yet had time. Imagine. They are very busy with other laws, ”continued the commentator.
Paulo Ferreira returned, on the radio, to the old question: where are the 100 thousand civil servants that have entered the state over the past decade? “They are not in health, they are not in education, they are not in court, they are not in the prevention of corruption … Well: they are looking for.”
Menac – National Anti -Corruption Mechanism recently warned that it had no indication of its own channels of complaint and conduct of the Assembly of the Republic.
However, still did not apply any fine to the Assembly of the Republic.
For 15 years, Parliament has had a risk prevention plan – but still today has no reference to the creation of a code of conduct of workers or an internal complaint channel.
From the Palace of São Bento, a clarification has come to the public: these two prevention instruments are being ultimately. The code of conduct must be ready in March, the complaint channel has no date to be announced.
