Comments on the new regulation of public transparency in Spain

Abstract

Transparency can play an essential role in the change of paradigm that is required by Spanish Public Administrations in order to restore the credibility and the confidence on their management. Indeed, it is beyond doubt the cornerstone of the good course of its relations with the citizens. In this sense, the intention to developing an appropriate regulatory framework trough the adoption of the Law 19/2013 of transparency, access to public information and good governance, as well as other legislative initiatives, both state and regional, seems to reflect the existence of a truth political will to endow the value that in the legal reality of the country belongs to it, although the confirmation of that will is going to be subjected, in any case, to the first evidences of the implementation of a genuine culture of transparency.