The Council has analysed whether this sample of entities of one of the groups of subjects obliged by Law 19/2013 on transparency, access to public information and good governance (LTAIBG) – the private entities that receive a certain amount of public funds – publish on their websites the information to which they are legally obliged.
The selection of the evaluated entities has been made by means of random sampling stratified according to type of entity receiving grants or public aid amounting to more than 500,000 euros in the period of one year, based on the information contained in the National Database of Grants. Of the 79 entities analyzed, 56 had already been evaluated in 2023 by the Council, and 23 entities have been analyzed for the first time.
Although there are significant differences in compliance between entities, the CTBG report shows that the average degree of compliance of the obligations imposed by the Transparency Act by all 79 entities evaluated is only 37.6%. In order to obtain the data of the Mandatory Information Compliance Index (ICIO), the Council evaluates whether or not the entities publish the information to which they are obliged and whether they do so properly (with sufficient degree of updating, accessibility, in reusable formats, etc. ).
Private entities required by law must publish information of an institutional and organizational nature (such as their organizational charts and profile and trajectories of their managers), and of an economic and budgetary nature (contracts and subsidies awarded to them by the public administrations, annual accounts, audit reports, annual remuneration of their top managers, etc. ).
The low ICIO obtained by all the private entities analyzed in 2024 is explained, on the one hand, by the lack of publication of mandatory information: the evaluated entities do not publish 60.1% of them, that is only 4 out of 10 mandatory contents are published. On the other hand, the Council has noted that many of these entities do not include references that allow citizens to know the degree of updating of the information published.
It is noteworthy that 68% of the entities that were evaluated in 2023 by the Council have not implemented any of the recommendations made by the institution to help them improve their compliance, aimed, fundamentally, at facilitating citizens the location, accessibility and understanding of information. Only 7 per cent of the entities implemented 80 per cent or more of the recommendations made. In those entities that implemented much of the Council’s recommendations, the average increase in ICIO exceeds 54 percentage points.
This is the case, for example, of the Save The Children Foundation and the Confederation of Rural Development Centers, which achieve 100% compliance after applying all the recommendations made to them by the Council in 2023.