The Council of Transparency and Good Governance, an independent administrative authority guarantor at the state level of compliance with Law 19/2013 on transparency, access to public information and good governance (LTAIBG), has today published its Annual Evaluation Plan for 2025. The Council will assess in this year whether 400 public and private institutions, bodies and entities comply with their obligations under the Transparency Act, which means that 32.5% more entities will be evaluated this year than in 2023.
The Council will analyze whether they comply with their obligations of active publicity: that is, if the entities publish on their institutional websites the information of public interest determined by the Law of Transparency.
The Council carries out all the evaluation with its own resources, using the MESTA methodology, developed jointly with the defunct Public Policy Evaluation Agency (AEVAL). In its individual evaluation reports, the Board issues specific recommendations addressed to each of the entities to help them improve their compliance rates. Both the interim evaluation reports of each of the entities and the claims made, where appropriate, by the subjects evaluated, as well as the final report, are published on the Council website as soon as the evaluation of each group of subjects evaluated is completed.
Categories of entities to be evaluated in 2025
On the one hand, as in previous years, in 2025 the evaluation will be re-evaluated. Portal of Transparency of the General State Administration (which integrates the information to be published by the ministries), in order to check the degree of implementation of the recommendations derived from the evaluation carried out in 2024 and which yielded a degree of compliance of 85.6%.
In addition, in 2025, 229 entities of the state institutional public sector, a group of entities that includes, among others, public business entities, autonomous bodies, commercial companies and public foundations. Of these, 156 will be evaluated for the first time, and 73 will be evaluated again. It should be noted that by the end of 2025 all the entities that make up the public institutional state sector will have been subject to, at least, a compliance assessment by the Transparency Council, which has been evaluating entities of this group since 2017.
The Transparency Act imposes obligations of active publicity not only to public entities, but also to private entities receiving a certain volume of public aid or subsidies. The Council evaluates the compliance of this group of obligated subjects since 2020. In 2025, it will analyze the compliance with the Transparency Law of 87 private entities that received at least 100,000 euros of public funds between November 2023 and November 2024. Of these, 63 will be analyzed for the first time and the rest will be reevaluated. Given the high number of subjects required by the LTAIGB in this category, the selection of entities is performed randomly by statistical sampling.
Moreover, the Council will do one. third evaluation 77 entities that have already been evaluated on two previous occasions by the Council, and which continue to show low levels of compliance without having adequately implemented the recommendations made.
And finally, it should be noted that in 2024 the Council carried out an evaluation at six o’clock. political parties at the national level with representation in Congress. In 2025, it will review the degree of implementation of the recommendations made to each of them and carry out a new quantification of the compliance indices.
In addition to these planned evaluations, the Council can carry out analysis of the portals of those entities on which a complaint is filed for non-compliance with the obligations of active publicity, once the pertinence of the complaint has been analyzed.