The training session, which was held online for participants, but in person for speakers, had more than 500 registered participants and the presence of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Institutional Relations and Transparència, Bernat Solé. At the opening of the day, the president of the ACM and mayor of Deltebre, Lluís Soler, emphasized the need for Catalan municipalism, its institutions and workers and elected officials, to be an example of good management and governance and for the transparència be "Not only a commitment but also a way of being and doing".
For his part, Councillor Bernat Solé highlighted that it is necessary to “build a quality democracy, and for this we must move towards essentially transparent institutions”, and noted that the regulation of transparència “it is a step forward in this sense and a key piece for the development of the Law of Transparència".
Solé acknowledged the work done in the last seven years, since the passage of the law, stressed that "Coordinated and shared work is always a collective success", and concluded his speech by encouraging the implementation of the regulation of transparència "From the largest municipality to the smallest".
For his part, the secretary of Transparència and Open Government, Jordi Foz, explained that "The regulation has been the result of a slow process of elaboration" the que "One of the lessons of Open Government is that the time you spend incorporating knowledge and enriching a public policy is a time you gain. Because this time allows you to listen to the citizens and the set of actors involved, and this means an improvement in the final product ".
The session served to dispel doubts regarding the modifications and casuistics incorporated into the new regulation in Law 19/2014 of Transparència, access to public information and good governance, which came into force six years ago. In this sense, this new regulation aims to specify and clarify those precepts that generated a disparity of interpretations and applications between public administrations, and incorporates the doctrine developed by bodies such as the Commission for the Guarantee of the Right of Access to Public Information (GAIP) or the Catalan Data Protection Authority, among others.
The processing of the Decree has also included the participation of the Transparent Governments Network, which has incorporated the perspective of local administration in the regulatory proposal, and of the ACM, which has made contributions in all the public information procedures of the regulatory processing. Thus, the ACM insisted on the need for the provisions of the new regulation to facilitate its application to local administration, and to respect local autonomy and the power of self-organization of local entities. We also requested that the approval of the regulation be accompanied by support measures for smaller local entities to facilitate their compliance with the obligations of both the Law on Transparència as per the regulation itself
The municipalist debate also included the participation of the analyst from the secretariat of Transparència and Open Government of the Generalitat of Catalonia Oliver Garcia which has explained the new regulation. A round table was also held with the participation of the President of the Commission for the Guarantee of the Right of Access to Public Information (GAIP). Elizabeth Samarra, the director of the Agency for Transparència of the AMB, Gemma Calvet, the adviser of the Catalan Ombudsman, Eugeni Castelló, and the director of the Foundation Transparència and Good Governance (FTBG), Luis Corominas.
