Thursday, December 11, 2014

The Transparency Portal starts running over … – RTVE

The Transparency Portal starts running over … – RTVE

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The Transparency Portal (transparencia.gob.es) became operational on Wednesday with more than 530,000 records accessible information on the General State Administration, of which 30,000 are hung directly and the rest are links to pages of other agencies.

may Citizens data available on this website available directly -salaries of senior officials, their resumes, contracts, agreements, texts of bills that approved by the Council of Ministers, etc ..- or request any information the Executive, who is obliged to respond within 30 days.

The portal starts walking, however, the Reviews organizations such as Access Info Europe and Foundation Civio , who lament that “complex systems” are used as electronic DNI officers keys for citizens to request information.

The person who wants to make a query will have to use the electronic ID, a digital certificate Factory Mint or password provided by the Ministry of Finance and Public Administration through the Key System, according to Europa Press. All requests must be accompanied by full name and national identity of the applicant.

The portal, which has had a cost of 300,000 euros reports Presidency comes into force one year after publication in the Official Gazette of the Transparency Act, Access to Information and Good Governance.

So far, only collects information on the General State Administration in writing sense and its agencies. autonomous communities and municipalities have an additional year to implement the law , since they have to adapt your web and modify the rules in some cases.

Available information directly into the Portal

The web of Transparency Portal allows queries to a search engine or access information through three icons: institutional information, regulatory and economic.

The section on the corporate information , you can view information about structure of ministries, curricula senior and plans and objectives of the various ministries.

In the second item on the rules , you can see both the laws in force as drafts that are under development, including reports of bodies such as the Audit Committee and the State Council once the text is no longer draft. This means that, for the first time, the Executive shall make public the draft laws at the time that the Cabinet approves and and reports on economic and budgetary impact of a rule.

In the third paragraph, the economic information , will be available data on recruitment , agreements, grants, subsidies to political parties, budget information, financial statements and audit reports, inventory of real property of the State General Administration, statistical information, resolutions of approval and recognition of compatibility of public employees, salaries of senior officials, or authorizations granted to exercise the private sector after leaving.

The site also featured a ‘banner’ with the new information to be hanging and Annex to the public agenda of President Government and ministers, as well as links to other sites such as the Moncloa, the INE, the BOE, etc., according to Efe.

Ordering information through the Transparency Portal

The transparencia.gob.es website has a special section for any citizen to send a request for information after selecting how you want to identify (DNI electronic, digital certificate, key provided by Hacienda …).

The government has 30 days to respond by mail or email, although they may deny information if management believes that giving it would be a Subject to national security or public safety, economic and commercial interests and other boundaries marking the transparency law.

If the subject requesting the information does not agree with the negative that has members may submit a complaint to the Council of Transparency also electronically, or go to court.

As for consultations involving the royal family, will be channeled through the secretariat General of the Prime Minister , which will cater Any competition of different ministries.

To avoid collision with the Data Protection Act, the Administration can not “give personal information of other individuals” .

The Government will launch a advertising campaign early next year to publicize this website , whose contract, worth 36,300 euros, was already on it.

Access Info and Civio criticize the” obstacles “for access to information

The organizations Access Info and Civio Foundation Thursday criticized the government to impose” barriers “access to information by requiring use” complex systems “such as electronic ID or key officials to make requests.

Remember that this system has caused problems in the VAT return last January and point representing an “obstacle” to the exercise of the right to information.

The coordinator of campaigns Access Info Europe, Victoria Anderica, ensures the transparency law “born with a series of deficiencies “ that lead them to consider” scope and insufficient. ” “The persistence of double negative administrative silence and exclusion of auxiliary information (reports” internal “, internal communications or between organizations, summaries and reviews) are two examples,” he says.

Javier de Vega, head of communications at Civio, notes that “there are still many doubts about its content and scope since the regulation, necessary to clarify certain points, is not ready and come with great delay”.

Still, Acces Info notes that “the central government now has an obligation to provide more information than before,” why encourage “people to ask for information, data and ask questions.”

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