The Generalitat de Catalunya launched on Wednesday 1 July the Portal of the Transparència, the website that provides citizens with integrated information from all Catalan public administrations and allows them to comply with their obligations transparència established by the Llei 19 / 2014.
The Minister of Governance and Institutional Relations, Meritxell Borràs, presented the new portal on the same day that the law on transparència, approved a few months ago by Parliament, highlighting the objective of making the administration have "glass walls" to facilitate its oversight. In Borràs' opinion, moreover, bringing the day-to-day administration closer to public management "is a golden opportunity to demonstrate that there is an immense majority of public servants who carry out their work honestly and effectively."
The new Portal of Transparència from Catalunya budgets, grants, and government procurement can be consulted online, and additional information can be requested. The Minister acknowledged, however, that the Portal is not 100% developed as, among other things, it is necessary to add the data of local bodies, which are not required to publish them until January 1, 2016 .
The AOC Consortium will offer a solution to manage information on transparència of local bodies
The AOC Consortium in collaboration with the Generalitat de Catalunya, Provincial Councils and municipal entities is working on one common solution of transparència for local authorities, which will be presented next October and will allow entities that wish to have a space for transparència own.
According to the Law of Transparència, local entities can make this information available to citizens only through the Portal of Transparència from Catalunya, or, through a space of transparència own, interconnected with this Portal of Transparència.
