On May 29, the conference “Transparency and Local Governments” was held, organized by the Fundación Democracia y Gobierno Local and by the Diputación de Sevilla, a meeting that brought together different experts to analyze aspects such as the limits to the right of access to information of local representative offices or the competence of the transparency authorities to know the claims of local representatives.

Within the framework of the conference took place the presentation of the Yearbook of Local Transparency corresponding to 2025, published by the Democracy and Local Government Foundation, and which includes two studies and the reports of the Council of Transparency and Good Government (CTBG) and the eleven councils and autonomous commissioners of transparency. The Council has been participating in the Yearbook since the publication of its first edition, in 2018. The secretary of the Yearbook, who directs Ramón Camp Battle, is Enrique Orduña Prada, Adviser to the CTBG and Professor of Constitutional Law at the Complutense University. The new president of the CTBG, Concepción Campos Acuña, has been incorporated into the Advisory Board of the publication.

The Yearbook gathers data on resolutory activity in terms of access to public information and doctrine of the various guarantor bodies, as well as relevant jurisprudence and monographic studies on specific aspects that affect transparency at the local level: in this edition, on the limits to access to public information of local representative offices (study signed by Manuel Medina Guerrero, Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Seville) and on the administrative procedure for access by local electors (DE Eduard-Valentín Pavel, lecturer in Administrative Law at the University of Lleida). In addition, a chapter on good practices in the Local Administrations in active advertising, of Ana María Ruiz Martínez, former advisory member of the CTBG.

During the day in which the Yearbook was presented, among other sessions, the round table "The challenges of the right of access to information of local governments from the perspective of guarantee bodies" was held, moderated by Enrique Orduña, and in which they participated Clara Velasco Rico, vice-chair of the Committee for the Guarantee of the Right of Access to Public Information (GAIP), Israel Adam Castile, director of the Transparency Area of the Transparency and Data Protection Council of Andalusia and Natalia Sánchez López, Transparency Commissioner of the Region of Murcia. The speakers discussed how to combat administrative silence in requests for access to information and highlighted the increase in the number of complaints. The particularities of the councilors’ right of access to public information were also addressed.

More information about the Annual.