Transparency portal (ES0117)

2.3.1. New Transparency Portal: the right to know, to understand and to participate

Brief description

Work will continue on the progressive improvement of the AGE Transparency Portal, through the following lines of action:
• Review of the structure and navigation of the portal, with the aim of ensuring that the organisation of the content clearly reflects its link to citizens' rights. Progress will also be made in improving the language used to ensure that the information is accessible and understandable, thereby strengthening accountability.
• Expansion and improvement of the content available, depending on the availability and updating of information sources. New content will be incorporated progressively, prioritising those most frequently requested through the right of access, as well as those that are recurring focuses of citizen interest and demand for transparency — such as institutional advertising, the agendas of senior officials, temporary staff or official travel — with the aim of enriching and making the information offered by the Transparency Portal more useful.
• Promoting accountability throughout the budgetary and public spending cycle, encouraging greater economic transparency by improving economic and budgetary data and making it easier for citizens to access and understand. The use of visual tools (such as data viewers) that allow information to be interpreted more clearly and usefully will be encouraged.
• Feasibility study for the incorporation of an inventory of procedures that include automated administrative actions and/or artificial intelligence (AI) systems. This inventory, which would not be a register, will be analysed with the dual objective of:
• Assessing the requirements for compatibility with the European Commission's inventory.
• Determine whether its most appropriate location would be the administración.gob.es portal rather than the Transparency Portal. • In any case, it should be noted that the registration of high-risk AI systems is the responsibility of the European Commission under the European AI Regulation.
• Strengthening compliance with active disclosure obligations, with particular attention to legally relevant information, ensuring that it is complete, up to date and in line with the requirements established in current legislation. Effective coordination with the sources responsible for such information will be promoted in order to improve compliance levels as assessed by the Transparency and Good Governance Council (CTBG) as an independent administrative authority.

Objectives

• Offer a clearer and more accessible content structure that makes it easier to find information and improves its comprehension by all citizens, promoting clear language and intuitive navigation.
• Improve access to, quality and understanding of economic and budgetary information, incorporating visual tools that allow data to be interpreted in a simple and transparent manner.
• Increase the level of compliance with active disclosure obligations, especially with regard to information of legal relevance, ensuring that it is complete, up to date and in line with current regulations.