The concept of Open Government refers to a new system of governance that promotes the participation of civil society as a mechanism to strengthen and increase democratic quality. One of its pillars is transparency, through which it is intended to generate trust, ensure accountability and facilitate the scrutiny of public actions by citizens.

Institutional information

Law 19/2013 on Transparency, Access to Public Information and Good Governance extends and strengthens the obligations of active publicity in different areas. In this sense, it requires the subjects within its scope of application to publish information regarding the functions they perform, the regulations that apply to them and their organizational structure, as well as their planning instruments and the evaluation of their degree of compliance.

In this section, you will find the functions, organization, plans and programs and Register of Personal Data Processing Activities of the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.

Mission and organization

Plans

Jobs

Registry of Treatment Activities

Senior Officials

High positions are considered those established by Law 3/2015, of March 30, regulating the exercise of the high office of the General Administration of the State.

In this section, you will find biographies, declaration of assets, annual remuneration and compensation for dismissal from the top positions of the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.

Agendas

Declaration of assets

Annual remuneration

Regulatory framework and legal regime

With regard to information of legal relevance and that directly affects the field of relations between the Administration and citizens, Law 19/2013 on Transparency, Access to Public Information and Good Governance contains a wide repertoire of documents that, when published, will provide greater legal certainty.

In this section, you can exercise your right to public participation in the normative projects that are in the elaboration phase, both ex ante, through a prior public consultation; and ex post, through a hearing or public information procedure.

In this section, you can consult the regulations of application to the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities in the exercise of the competences that the Ministry has assigned.

Economic management

In the field of information of economic, budgetary and statistical relevance, Law 19/2013 on Transparency, Access to Public Information and Good Governance establishes a broad catalogue that must be accessible and understandable to citizens, given its nature as an optimal instrument for the control of the management and use of public resources.

In this section, you will find information on budget management. A list of contracts, agreements and subsidies processed by the Ministry is included.

Budgets

Contracts

Conventions

Grants

Right of access

Law 19/2013 on Transparency, Access to Public Information and Good Governance establishes the obligation to publish all information that is most often the subject of a request for access, so that the obligations of transparency are connected with the interests of the citizens. Also, the decisions to deny and partially grant the public information requested, after dissociation of personal data, based on the causes indicated in point 1 of article 14 of the said Law.

In this section, there are the resolutions referring to the most frequent requests for access to public information held by the Ministry, as well as those that have been denied because they are subject to the limits of the law established in the Law.

Resolutions of transparency

Evaluation of the right of access

Open Government

Open government is a culture of governance that promotes the participation of different actors in support of democracy. It is based on three pillars: transparency, participation and accountability.

Spain has been part of the Open Government Alliance since 2011 and has carried out several Open Government Action Plans, which act as a lever to achieve the sustainable development objective 16 of the 2030 Agenda: to build fair, peaceful and inclusive societies.

The Fourth Open Government Plan has launched an inclusive communication campaign of open government to inform and contribute to publicizing what is open government, publicizing the existence of the Transparency Portal and the existing mechanisms of participation in public life.

Plans

Open Administration Week

Open data

The publication of open data allows citizens to share valuable information from which a new added value can be obtained. Advantages of the publication of public data are: transparency; liberating the social and commercial value of data; promoting the participation and commitment of citizens.

The objective of the open data policy of the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities is to provide the data in its possession so that in an open way any citizen or company can exploit and reuse them, always complying with the conditions required by the applicable regulations.

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