The Government will publish the names of the recipients … – 20minutos.es

The Government will publish the names of the recipients … – 20minutos.es

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The Government will publish a website in the name of the persons or entities beneficiaries of subsidies and support which have been granted by the Central Government, its agencies and binding or dependent entities from 2014 and “the name or the corporate name” of offenders.

The initiative stems from a ‘popular’ amendment to the law to rationalize public sector and other measures of administrative reform in the full Senate last July materialized into two transaction were approved after obtain the support of several parliamentary groups.

The text states that the National Database of Grants (BDNS) “will operate as national advertising system subsidies” and “serve electronic means “to fulfill the transparency obligations referred to in the Transparency Law adopted in December last year.

The Government will amend the General Subsidies Act of 2003 to incorporate various transparency measures In particular, it is stated that the BDNS will publicize these benefits “ provided the call, recipient and amount awarded.” Of course, the publication of grants is restricted to when providing information on the beneficiary be “contrary to respect and safeguard the honor, personal and family privacy” and “self-image”.

In addition, this database “may provide public information on the strong sanctions imposed for very serious offenses” , specifically, “the name or the name and address of the offender subject publish, the offense” and the offense will be imposed.

The measure, which must be approved definitively in the House of Congress in September, aims to meet the forecast to create a ‘Transparency Portal ‘statewide –recogida in 2013– Transparency Act to facilitate the access of citizens to information on certain “acts of administrative management with economic and budgetary impact.”

So, the Government will amend the General Subsidies Act of 2003 to incorporate various measures of transparency. The new Article 20 provides that, among others, the local state government, the autonomous and as well as political parties and trade unions “are obliged to provide information” to this database.

All this, knowing that the autonomous regions and local entities “may take other complementary and collaborative to fulfill the obligations of transparency measures” contained in the rule ensures transparency.