Recurrent: Paradores de Turismo de España, S.M.E., S.A.
Resolution appealed: R CTBG 574/2026
In exercise of the right of access to public information, Paradores de Turismo de España, SME, S.A. was requested to access the annual salaries of the directors of the paradores of Teruel, Granada and Sigüenza between 2020 and 2024 disaggregated by years including any type of supplement or emolument.
The requested entity issued a resolution stating that the staff of PARADORES DE TURISMO DE ESPAÑA, S.M.E., S.A., including the one with managerial status, given its status as a State commercial company, is governed by labour law, as well as by the rules that are applicable to it depending on its ascription to the State public sector, denying access because it considers the particular interest of those affected to be prevalent and supporting its denial in the interpretative criterion of this Council CI/0001/2015, to subsequently, in allegations grant access to the information only referred to the positions of President/Councillor Councillor Directors of Area, on the understanding that those positions of free designation of lower levels are not identifiable to levels 30, 29 or assimilate to 28 primacy to data,
The Council partially estimates the claim, not only on the basis of the aforementioned criterion but with support in the doctrine established by the Supreme Court in the STS of December 11, 2023 (ECLI:ES:TS:2023:5514) indicating that the right of access includes not only the data relating to the organization chart, staff and officials, but also to the remuneration and qualifications of officials and employees in the Public Administrations and in the agencies and entities integrated in the public sector, and that the resolution of PARADORES is limited to stating that the positions of Directors of Services (among them, the positions of Directors of the Department that are not ‘posts of special confidence, not of a high level of hierarchy of the body, or posts provided by a procedure (…) of free appointment’, while the Supreme Court has determined that access to pay information is the general rule, without the lack of trust status or the mode of provision of the post being sufficient reason to deny access. Likewise, it points out that PARADORES claims that the Director of Parador does not assume responsibility in the decision-making processes, but without providing specific justification in this regard or the reference to the internal regulations that accredits it, and contrary to what emerges from the publicly available information on the operation of the entity.