The Transparency and Good Governance Commission, a collegiate body of the Transparency and Good Governance Council, met today at the Council’s headquarters. It is its second meeting since the Council of Ministers, at its meeting of April 27, 2021, approved the Agreement by which the mandate was renewed and the members of the Committee on Transparency and Good Governance were appointed.

The Commission on Transparency and Good Governance has, among others, the following functions: advising on transparency, access to public information and good governance, as well as proposing guidelines, practices, activities, meetings, and collaboration mechanisms on transparency, access to public information and good governance.

The Committee on Transparency and Good Governance is composed of the President of the Council, José Luis Rodríguez Álvarez and the following members: Odón Elorza, deputy; María Teresa Ruiz-Sillero, senator; Margarita Mariscal de Gante, counsellor of the Court of Auditors; José Manuel Sánchez Saudinós, secretary general of the Ombudsman; David Javier Santos, lawyer of the State-Head of the Data Protection Agency; Eloisa Paredes, deputy director general of Transparency and Citizen Care in the Directorate General of Public Governance; and Diego Pérez, director of the Institutional Legal Division of the Independent Authority of Fiscal Responsibility. The Secretary of the Commission is Francisco Javier Amorós, Deputy Director-General for Transparency and Good Governance.

During today’s meeting, the President gave oral briefings to the members of the Commission on the main activities of the Council during the month since the previous meeting held by the Council. Likewise, he has given them, for their study, a first version of the Strategic Plan of the institution for the quadrennium 2022-2025. Finally, he presented to the attendees various issues related to the Council's institutional cooperation actions, both with the autonomous bodies guaranteeing transparency and with associations and civil society organizations specializing in the matter, and he sought the Commission's suggestions and proposals on how to promote and increase such actions and on their proactive participation in them.