In its evaluation work, the Council calculates the Mandatory Information Compliance Index (ICIO) of each of the entities and formulates specific indications to help them achieve full compliance with the Transparency Act.

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). 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 in the Official Journal of the European Union. council website As soon as the evaluation of each group of evaluated subjects is completed.

Categories of entities to be evaluated in 2026

On the one hand, as in previous years, in 2026 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 2025.

In addition, in 2026 the compliance of 155 entities that were already evaluated by the Council in 2025 and that are part of the state institutional public sectorwhich includes, but is not limited to, autonomous bodies, public business bodies, corporations and public foundations.

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 2026 it will analyze 122 private entities that received at least 100,000 euros of public funds between November 2024 and November 2025. Of these, 60 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.

On the other hand, the Council will re-examine the compliance, and the level of implementation, of the indications made in the evaluations of 2024 and 2025, of the six political parties at the national level with representation in Congress.

As a novelty, this year, the Council will carry out voluntary evaluations to public and private parties who have made changes to their transparency portals and who wish their ICIO to be re-evaluated.

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.