09/11/2017: The Third Sector Platform was contacted and incorporated as a civil society representative at the meeting on 11 September 2017. Informative note.

11/27/2017: The Federation of Associations of Journalists of Spain (FAPE) has been contacted to comment on its possible participation as observers of the Forum, at the meeting on 27 November 2017. Informative Note

The ministerial order establishing the Open Government Forum has been approved. Order HFP/134/2018, of 15 February, creating the Open Government Forum.

La constituent meeting of the forum It took place on May 10, coinciding with the Open Administration Week. Informative note.

The composition and functions of the Forum have been discussed at meetings held on 14 September by the Open Government Sectoral Commission and on 15 September with representatives of civil society. Informative note of the meeting of 15 September.

The working groups of the Forum have been established through plenary agreement of the Open Government Forum, at the meeting of May 10, 2018. These are groups of equal composition between representatives of the AA.PP. and civil society, in which they have been invited to participate in the follow-up of the commitments of the plan.

• Collaboration and Participation.
• Transparency and Accountability.
• Training and Awareness.

Meetings held:

• 11/16/2017: Meeting of the Training and Awareness Working Group. Informative note.
• 12/11/2017: Meeting of the Partnership and Participation Working Group. Informative note.
• 31/01/2018: Meeting of the Working Group on Transparency and Accountability. Informative note.
• 02/22/2018: Meeting of the Training and Awareness Working Group. Informative note.
• 15/03/2018: Meeting of the Working Group on Collaboration and Participation. Informative note.
• 04/26/2018: Meeting of the Working Group on Transparency and Accountability. Informative note.
• 05/10/2018: Plenary meeting of the Open Government Forum. Informative note.
• 05/24/2018: Meeting of the Training and Awareness Working Group. Informative note.
• 06/14/2018: Meeting of the Working Group on Collaboration and Participation. Informative note.
• 05/07/2018: Permanent Commission meeting of the Open Government Forum. Informative note.
• 07/12/2018: Meeting of the Working Group on Transparency and Accountability. Informative note.
• 09/19/2018: Meeting of the Training and Awareness Working Group. Informative note.
• 18/10/2018: Meeting of the Partnership and Participation Working Group. Informative note.
• 05/11/2018: Meeting of the Working Group on Transparency and Accountability. Informative note.
• 11/20/2018: Meeting of the Standing Committee. Informative note.
• 12/13/2018: Meeting of the Training and Awareness Working Group. Informative note.
• 01/31/2019: Meeting of the Partnership and Participation Working Group. Informative note.
• 02/14/2019: Meeting of the Standing Committee. Informative note.
• 02/28/2019: Meeting of the Working Group on Transparency and Accountability. Informative note.
• 03/14/2019: Meeting of the Training and Awareness Working Group. Informative note.
• 04/25/2019: Meeting of the Working Group on Transparency and Accountability. Informative note.
• 05/24/2019: Meeting of the Training and Awareness Working Group. Informative note.
• 06/07/2019: Meeting of the Partnership and Participation Working Group. Informative note.
• 06/18/2019:: Given the circumstances, with the Government in office, at the meeting of the Partnership and Participation Working Group on 7 June, agreement was reached to postpone the meeting of the Plenary of the Open Government Forum to a later date, to be determined.

During the working group meetings (Collaboration and Participation, Transparency and Accountability, and Training and Awareness) have been held accountable for the progress of the commitments of the Third Open Government Plan.

In the Forum meetings The progress of the Third Plan is regularly reported, with comments and suggestions from representatives of civil society. Además, trimestralmente se rinde cuentas sobre el seguimiento del Plan en el participatory web space, where one has been enabled form so that civil society can make its comments.

The Executive Committee of the OGP has since 2018 allowed the mid-term self-assessment report to be replaced by an online repository of progress of the plan, provided that this system is publicly accessible and is updated after the first year of implementation of the Plan. El participatory web space on the follow-up to the III Open Government Action Plan of Spain, published in the Transparency Portal, has been evaluated by the OGP, which has considered that it satisfactorily meets the objectives of accountability, so it can replace the self-evaluation report. However, in Spain, a mid-term self-assessment report (June 2018) that has been submitted for consultation and debate at the meetings of the Interministerial Group on Open Government and Transparency (08/11/2018: Informative note), of the Standing Committee of the Open Government Forum (20/11/2018: Informative note) and the Open Government Sectoral Commission (20/11/2018: Informative note).

Since the change in the methodology of the Open Government Alliance in 2019, the MRI (Mechanism for the Independent Review of Action Plans) does not carry out the mid-term evaluation report. View MRI methodology document of 13 March 2019

Report on the functioning of the Open Government Forum