What is the transparency Portal?
Welcome to the Transparency Portal of the General Administration of the State, whose legal framework is the Welcome to the Transparency Portal of Law 19/2013, of 9 December, on transparency, access to public information and good governance (LTBG)..
The Associated Electronic Headquarters of the Transparency Portal is created through the Order TFP/303/2019 of 12 March 2019.
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Which article of the LTBG refers to the creation of the transparency portal?
The creation of the Transparency Portal (PT) is set out in Article 10 of the LTBG.
Article 10. Transparency Portal.
- The General State Administration will develop a Transparency Portal, under the Ministry of the Presidency, which will facilitate citizen access to all the information referred to in the previous articles relating to its sphere of action.
With the new organisational structures of the ministerial departments, in particular the ,Royal Decree 682/2021 of 3 August the Transparency Portal is now under the responsibility of the Ministry of Finance and the Civil Service, through the Directorate-General for Public Governance (Secretariat of State for the Civil Service).
What is the administrative scope of the General State Administration?
The General State Administration comprises:
- The Central Organisation, which integrates the Ministries and common services.
- Territorial Organisation.
- The General State Administration abroad.
What is the Transparency Portal of the General State Administration?
It is a web portal, dependent on the Ministry of Finance and Public Function, where the following information is published: information on the administrative organisations listed in the following section, information on Open Government, and the information that the Transparency Law requires to be made public. In addition, the portal allows the exercise of the right of access to information not available on the portal.
What is the administrative scope of this Portal?
This Portal publishes information relating to:
- The General State Administration.
- The managing bodies and the common services of the Social Security as well as the mutual insurance companies that collaborate with the Social Security.
- Autonomous bodies, State agencies, public business entities and public law entities which, with functional independence or with a special autonomy recognised by law, have been attributed regulatory or supervisory functions of an external nature over a specific sector or activity.
- Public law entities with their own legal personality, linked to any of the Public Administrations or dependent on them, including public universities.
The Portal does not contain specific information on Autonomous Communities, Local Entities, State Companies, Foundations and Constitutional bodies. These entities will publish their information on their respective websites and electronic offices.
How is the associated e-site of the Transparency Portal regulated?
The electronic sub-site of the Transparency Portal has been set up through the Order TFP/303/2019 of 12 March, creating the electronic sub-offices of the Funciona Portal and the Transparency Portal, as electronic offices derived from the Electronic Office of the General Access Point of the General State Administration.
Following the approval and publication of the Royal Decree 203/2021 of 30 March the name of the new electronic office has been changed to the associated electronic office.
What are its characteristics?
- It will include all ministerial departments and related and dependent public bodies and will allow citizens to access the public information provided for in Law 19/2013, of 9 December, on Transparency, access to public information and good governance, by means of the corresponding request.
- The reference e-mail address of the associated electronic site shall be https://sede.transparencia.gob.es/
- The associated electronic site shall be owned by the State Secretariat for the Civil Service.
- They will be channels of access to the services available at the headquarters:
- Access through the General Access Point e-Office at the General Access Point in administracion.gob.es.
- The associated website of the Transparency Portal.
- For in-person attention, the 060 office at Calle Manuel Cortina, 2, 28010 Madrid, as well as the 060 Offices of Government Delegations and Subdelegations and Island Directorates, in accordance with the competencies defined in the regulations governing ministerial organisation and the rest of the offices of the Public Administrations within the framework of the agreements signed or that may be signed, without prejudice to access through the means provided for in article 16.4 of Law 39/2015, of 1 October.
- For telephone assistance, the departmental information services, on telephone 060.
- The means available for the formulation of suggestions and complaints are those available at the General Access Point, from which the associated electronic site of the Transparency Portal is derived.
- The associated electronic office will allow all duly identified persons to exercise the right of access to public information that has been prepared or acquired in the exercise of the functions of a body or entity or when it is a consequence of the development of the competences formally attributed to it.
- The technological management of the sub-headquarters will be the responsibility of the General Secretariat for Digital Administration, in accordance with the powers vested in it by the provisions of the Royal Decree 682/2021 of 3 August.
- The Secretary of State for the Civil Service shall be responsible for the management, content and services made available to the persons concerned in the associated electronic site. Responsibility shall correspond to the powers attributed to the person or persons in charge in accordance with the legislation in force.
What are its specific contents?
What regulates the Transparency Law?
The Law of Transparency, Access to Public Information and Good Governance (LTBG) provides what information public authorities must publish for the information of citizens, how citizens can request information from the government and what Governance rules to be observed by public officials.
What entities are obliged to provide information?
All public authorities, public sector entities, constitutional bodies (including the House of His Majesty the King) and their counterparts at regional level as well as public sector foundations, associations formed by government or Corporations with majority public participation, are bound by the Transparency Act. That is, they should publish the information mentioned Law and also respond to information requests submitted by citizens.
also required to publish the information provided in the private entities such as political parties, trade unions, labor organizations and other entities that receive state aid law.
In the case of this Transparency Portal, based on Article 10 of the LTBG, information from the State Administration requested more frequently published.
What is the Transparency Portal Government of Eng; a ?
is the platform under the Ministry of the Presidency, by which you can access the information from the Central Government under the Act, whose disclosure is relevant to ensure the transparency of its activity related to the operation and control of public action. It will also contain information that citizens most frequently requested right of access to public information and the decisions rejecting the right of access, previously anonymised.
What does this Portal?
El Portal, in accordance with the provisions of Law 19/2013, of December 9, Transparency, Access to Public Information and Good Governance, aims to expand and enhance the transparency of the public, regulate and guarantee the right of access to information relating to that activity and establish good governance obligations to be met by public authorities activity.
The Portal publishes information of the entities that make up the government, namely:.
- State Administration
- management entities and common services of the Social Security and the mutual collaborating Social Security.
- autonomous bodies , the State Agencies , the public companies and public law entities , with functional independence or with special autonomy recognized by law, attributed to regulatory or supervisory functions of external character on a given sector or activity.
- public law entities with legal personality, linked to any government or dependent upon, including public universities < / span>.
The Portal contains information Autonomous Communities, Local Authorities, State Corporations, Foundations and constitutional bodies. These entities shall publish their information on their respective web portals and online offices.
What is the Ad Turns?
information is grouped into the categories defined in the law, the government must publish periodically and updated to ensure transparency of its activity.
In this Transparency Portal Government of Eng; to facilitating access of citizens to all the institutional, organizational information, planning, legal relevance, economic, budgetary and statistics provided on the corresponding to the Ministries law, autonomous agencies, public companies, state agencies and public undertakings.
What information is published in the Portal?
The Act regulates the publication of the following categories of information on what is known as Advertising Active:
Organizational Information
- Functions that take place in organisms
- Applicable regulations
- Structure: identifying the organizational units responsible, profile and professional experience
- Plans and annual programs, targets, compliance and results
Information legal relevance
- Guidelines, instructions, agreements, circulars, replies to queries (involving an interpretation of the law or legal effects)
- draft laws or legislative decrees
- Designing regulation
- Memoirs and Reports contained in the files of drafting legal texts
- Documents to be subject to public information
economic information content
- Contract
- Conventions and management commissions
- Compensation of senior
- Government subsidies and support
- Budget
- Annual accounts. Audit reports and audit
- Resolutions of the Office of Conflict of Interest affecting public employees and officials
- Statistical information of degree of compliance with public services
- Real Estate state-owned
Is there any restriction on the publication of information?
Indeed. Can that information can not be published because it relates to sensitive issues such as national security, defense or the protection of personal data. In these cases, it should be checked whether, indeed, the publication affects the limits that the law provides or, in the case of personal data, whether they can be removed from the document is published.
What if I can not find information on the site?
In principle, the most relevant information for citizens and frequent access will be available on the Portal so accessible, reusable and interoperable. If the driver needs more information or need more detail, then it can access the service request public information is a right governed by the law of transparency and good governance. This service is available on the site.
What happens if they do not comply with the obligations of transparency and information is not published?
The Council of Transparency and Good Government will ensure compliance with the provisions of the Act and breach may result in disciplinary proceedings.
What is the right of access to public information?
It is the right of access to public information access in the terms provided in the Constitution Article 105.b), meaning the public information or documents, whatever their medium or format, which are held held by the administration and which has been produced or acquired in the exercise of their functions.
For more information on the right of access go to the Citizen's Guide. Access
Could you ask for any information?
The right of access to information is subject to certain limits that aim to protect other legal interests that may be left unprotected if the information is made public. That is, the limits exist to protect information that should not be public because, if it were, it could harm a person or the public interest.
These limits are priced in the Act and are as follows:
- National security
- The defense
- The Foreign Affairs
- Public safety
- The prevention, investigation and punishment of the criminal, administrative or disciplinary illicit
- The equality of the parties in court proceedings and effective judicial protection
- The administrative functions of monitoring, inspection and control
- The economic and commercial interests
- The economic and monetary policy
- Professional secrecy and intellectual property
- The guarantee of confidentiality or secrecy required in decision-making processes
- The protection of the environment
How limits apply?
The body which prompted information whose publication considers that can harm any of the limits shall assess whether indeed a Dan occurs;. Or if that information is provided.
Why is data protection?
If the requested information contained sensitive data, access may be authorized only if they were devoted to this the express written consent of the affected.
What is the partial access?
In cases where information on which part of it is subject to any limit because the right is claimed, the application partly admissible and the applicant shall indicate the information has been omitted .
What can a citizen who is denied information?
You can file a complaint with the Council of Transparency and Good Governance, independent body to ensure proper compliance with the provisions of the law.
For more information on the right of access to public information, see the Citizen's Guide. Right of access.
What is the Council of Transparency and Good Governance?
The right of access to information is subject to certain limits qThe Council for Transparency and Good Governance is a public body provided for in the tenth additional provision of Law 6/1997, of 14 April, on the Organisation and Functioning of the General State Administration, repealed by Law 40/2015. Following the entry into force of the Law 40/2015 on the Legal Regime of the Public Sector, se transformará en autoridad administrativa independiente de ámbito estatal.
The Council of Transparency and Good Governance aims to promote transparency in government activities, ensure compliance with disclosure requirements, safeguarding the exercise of the right of access to public information and ensure compliance with the provisions of good governance.
Is the Council responsible for the Transparency Portal?
No. The council has its own legal personality and full capacity to act. It is acting with full autonomy and independence in the fulfillment of its purposes.