Madrid, 3 April 2014 – Access Info and the Foundation Civio met on Wednesday 2 April 2014 with senior representatives of the Spanish government to discuss a range of transparency issues, including implementation of the access to information law (due to come into force on 10 December 2014), Spain’s second Open Government Partnership Action Plan, and moves by the Spanish Parliament to regulate lobbying. This is the first time in two years that Access Info has had a formal meeting with government representatives to review transparency issues. The meeting was held with State Secretary for Parliamentary Relations, José Luis Ayllón

Artículo publicado por Eva Belmonte en ‘El BOE nuestro de cada día’. Puedes leer su versión original aquí. Madrid, 10 de marzo de 2014 – El pasado 10 de diciembre el BOE recogía la Ley de transparencia, acceso a la información pública y buen gobierno, aprobada un día antes. En el texto se estableció que los apartados relativos a la transparencia de la norma entrarían en vigor en un año, esto es, diciembre de 2014. Para preparar ese camino, el Consejo de Ministros debía aprobar, en el plazo de tres meses desde la publicación en el boletín oficial, un real

Madrid, 3 February 2014 – Access Info Europe today welcomed the European Union’s first anti-corruption report on Spain, which called for measures to strengthen Spain’s transparency law adopted in December 2013 in line with those which civil society has been campaigning for. Access Info Europe today urged the Spanish government to act immediately on the recommendations, which include guaranteeing independence of the appeals body, enhancing sanctions for non-compliance, and a narrower scope of exceptions to the principle of access to information.

Madrid, 2 de diciembre 2013 –  El Congreso de los Diputados el 28 de noviembre de 2013 aprobaba las últimas enmiendas a la ley de transparencia para España. Casi diez años después de que se hiciera la primera promesa electoral la sociedad española estrena una ley de transparencia que se coloca a España en la posición 72 de 96 países con leyes de transparencia. Las reacciones de Access Info Europe, de la Coalición Pro Acceso y de la OSCE van en la misma línea, esta ley es insuficiente. Han sido muchas campañas, la campaña de las 100 preguntas, #preguntaalgobierno, tuderechoasaber.es,

Helen Darbishire, Executive Director, Access Info Europe explains why the new Transparency and Access to Information Law in Spain is particularly weak, and also maps out the political context in which the law was adopted, seeking to explain why the Spanish Government opted for an instrument which will not empower citizens to obtain the information they need for participation and to hold power to account. Download a copy or continue reading. Madrid, 28 November 2013 — The Spanish Government has missed an historic opportunity to adopt an access to information law in line with international standards, instead adopting a law

Madrid, 28 November 2013 – The Spanish Parliament today adopted the Law on Transparency, Access to Information and Good Governance, the first law of its kind in Spain. The Coalición Pro Acceso regrets that final text is insufficient, given its serious shortcomings and contradictions, making the law obsolete from the outset and far from meeting international standards.

The law will be adopted on 28 November 2013 but will enter into force only after one year at the national level and two years at the regional level Madrid, 26 November 2013 – The Spanish Law on Transparency, Access to Information and Good Governance was approved by the Senate last Wednesday with no improvements to the right of access to information, despite the rejection of the text from the majority of parliamentary groups. The following political groups and parties voted against the law: ERC, AMAIUR, IU, ENTESA PROGRES PER CATALUNYA y PSOE. “The ruling Partido Popular has ignored civil society

– Companies have asked to plant test GM crops in 40 locations in Castilla y León out of 62 in total across Spain – Civil society organisations report that the Spanish Government gave the information when most of the experiments had already finished Valladolid, 13 November 2013 – Amigos de la Tierra, Access Info Europe, COAG, Plataforma Rural and Red de Semillas have today published a map with the exact loaction of the GMO test fields in Spain [1]. The Spanish government has released the information outside legal timeframes, when the majority of the tests had been