The next Wednesday, December 10 will set off the transparency law with the opening of web portal of the same name in which you should be able to find all the Economic Information , administrative and political of all ministries, public enterprises and high state organs and from which citizens may make additional requests for information or documents 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
The implementation of this support, which incorporates Spain to a obligation to its EU partners have for years, occurs however the doubts about its real scope and criticism deficiencies with input already part of some of the main Spanish organizations specialized in transparency. Agree that only the effective application of this rule does not have specificity even in a Regulation reveal whether the Government and other government agencies intend to open their windows to citizens or just make the text approved compliance rácano just makes one year.
hit and doubts Transparency International , Civio or Access Info Europe Foundation are similar and focus on the Council Transparency-the body that will monitor compliance with the law-, limits on the right to request information, the vagueness of sanctions for breaches, or the degree of generosity of government in providing the required data.
Council Transparency , the body must ensure that all administrations and organizations provide information that calls them by law, protect those citizens who are denied data, propose penalties or issue and improve critical reports to Parliament, against the advice of experts, under the Ministry of Finance, has a president who has been appointed with most of PP and its advisory board lacks vocal civil society. Party so many doubts to clear their independence.
paragraph that will measure the actual degree of transparency that are willing administrations is not so much the information offered by obligation but they give or refuse to demand of citizens. Experts criticize already troubled part. Works with negative silence and without obligation to argue it. If the maximum response time may be extended to side-a month passes without news should be understood as a rejection. The limits for denying information, meanwhile, are too broad and generic, leave room for discretion. Besides the usual constraints of national security, defense, foreign affairs, personal or secret administrative and judicial cases there are other, more ethereal, such as damage to economic or environmental interest, privilege or “secret required in decision-making processes. “
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organizations transparency not believe sufficient nor specifically the disciplinary section speaks only of serious penalties for those who consistently fails its obligations to respond to requests for information or think that helps dispel the traditional opacity nearly 21,000 public bodies should reveal the properties owned but not the rest of their property.
Another general criticism is the fact that the transparency law obliging open from Wednesday to the general administration of the State, senior agencies and various private organizations, but not do the same to within a year with the regions, municipalities, associations and councils, as excessive moratorium understand.
The unanimous certainly is in the generosity that demonstrate the concerned agencies in meeting their obligations active advertising, exposing the entire list of data and documents as required by law. It is knowing if they choose criteria of maximum or minimum, if they use comfortable and useful electronic formats for citizens or put hobbles them if they are synthetic or make extensive breakdown of each documentation, or if they choose to ‘cook’ the information or the offer crude to better use. In short, the application rather than the letter, they believe, will determine the success of law.
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