Recurrent: Ministry of the Interior

Resolution appealed: R CTBG 0891/2025

In exercise of the right of access to public information, the Ministry of the Interior was requested to provide access to information relating to the changing rooms equipped in the various units of the Civil Guard.

The General Directorate of the Civil Guard decided to deny access on the basis of article 18.1.c) LTAIBG, considering that it is necessary to carry out a reprocessing task to meet the request.

The claim questions the lack of a computerized registry with the requested data and provides a document prepared by the General Directorate of the Civil Guard itself.

The requested body clarifies that this file was the result of a compilation and some specific works carried out on the dates on which the document was prepared (September 2021), the updating of which - as required by the applicant - would affect the normal operation of the service.

The Council considers the claim, pointing out that what is requested is information that has already been previously processed; so that, even if the automatic extraction of the data was not possible, the work of this body would be limited exclusively —as the claimant points out— to updating the parameters contained in the 2021 file, which could be undertaken with a minimum or basic reprocessing that does not entail a complex processing of information that allows the application of the cause of inadmissibility provided for in article 18.1.c) LTAIBG. Likewise, it is indicated that only a generic reference has been made to a hypothetical affectation of the operation of the service, but no explanation of the difficulties that would cause the treatment of the requested information or an estimate of the work that would entail this task in relation to the available human resources has been provided.