Institutional meeting with the Transparency Commissioner of the Canary Islands

20/05/2026

Meeting between the Transparency Council and the Transparency Commissioner of the Canary Islands

The president of the Transparency and Good Government Council, Concepción Campos Acuña, held an institutional meeting yesterday with the Transparency Commissioner of the Canary Islands, Noelia García Leal. The meeting shared, among other issues, the initiatives developed by the two institutions in the promotion and supervision of transparency and the common challenges in the work of guaranteeing the right of access to public information.

The meeting was also attended by the Deputy Director General of Transparency and Good Governance of the Council, Gonzalo Gómez de Villalobos, and by the Transparency Commissioner of the Canary Islands, the head of the Transparency Assessment and Control Service, Miguel Ángel Herrero, and the head of the Complaints and General Affairs Service, Teresa Casanova.

During the meeting, both institutions shared proposals to try to reduce administrative silence in requests for information and to speed up the processing of claims regarding the right of access to public information. They also agreed on the need for greater collaboration and coordination between the different bodies guaranteeing transparency, especially in the evaluation of the obligations of active publicity by the subjects obliged. In this context, the evaluation model developed in the Canary Islands, considered a reference at the state level and based on the MESTA methodology, developed by the Transparency Council and the former State Agency for the Evaluation of Public Policies and the Quality of Public Services (AEVAL), was valued.