The president of the Council for Transparency and Good Governance, Concepción Campos, met yesterday with the Ombudsman, Ángel Gabilondo, at the headquarters of this institution, in an institutional meeting aimed at analyzing the current state of transparency in public administrations, and in which the high percentage of complaints submitted to the Council for administrative silence was highlighted.

Published by the Fundación Democracia y Gobierno Local, the new edition of this volume essential to understand the panorama of transparency and the right of access to public information at the local level was presented on May 29 in Seville, within the framework of the conference “Transparency and Local Governments”, organized by the Foundation and the Diputación de Sevilla. The Board’s advisory member, Enrique Orduña Prada, secretary of the Yearbook, moderated one of the round tables of the day.

The President of the Council, Concepción Campos Acuña, met today with the General Secretary of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP), Luis Martínez-Sicluna Sepúlveda, and with the Deputy Director of Administrative Modernization of the FEMP, José Luis Garrote González, in order to explore ways of collaboration to promote joint actions that strengthen transparency and the right of access to public information at the local level. The two institutions have agreed that they will formalize an agreement to articulate training and dissemination actions, among other formulas.

The president of the Council of Transparency and Good Government, Concepción Campos Acuña, met yesterday with the president of the Advisory Council of Galicia and Commissioner of Transparency of Galicia, Andrés Lago Louro, at the headquarters of the Council in Santiago de Compostela.

In the framework of Open Administration Week, the independent authority held an informal colloquium on May 22 with various organizations working to promote transparency and the right of access to public information, with the aim of strengthening collaboration and communication channels with key actors to advance this right.

Available for consultation the 74 resolutions issued by the Council in April in complaint procedures against the autonomous and local administrations of those autonomous communities with which we have agreement.

The president of the Transparency and Good Government Council, Concepción Campos Acuña, held an institutional meeting yesterday with the Transparency Commissioner of the Canary Islands, Noelia García Leal. The meeting shared, among other issues, the initiatives developed by the two institutions in the promotion and supervision of transparency and the common challenges in the work of guaranteeing the right of access to public information.

Durante la reunión celebrada ayer por el órgano colegiado consultivo del Consejo de Transparencia y Buen Gobierno (CTBG), la primera presidida por Concepción Campos, también se examinó la actividad reciente desarrollada por la autoridad independiente y los proyectos previstos para los próximos meses.

Available for consultation on the resolutions issued by the Council in April in 101 complaints procedures against the General State Administration and the state public sector.

La autoridad independiente aborda en una nueva sesión de su ciclo de seminarios la tensión entre el acceso a la información pública y la propiedad intelectual, y refuerza su diálogo con organizaciones comprometidas con la transparencia, en un encuentro con la sociedad civil. Además, su equipo participa en varias actividades organizadas por otras instituciones con motivo de la Semana de la Administración Abierta.