SUMMARY

Claim against denial of access to the database of the Central Civil Registry of deaths.

A citizen filed a petition with the Ministry of Justice requesting access to data that is not legally protected within the database of the Central Civil Registry of Deaths.

The Administration denied access due to administrative silence.

When the complaint was filed, the Transparency and Good Governance Council rejected it, since access to a database is requested in real time, which would require the development of an “ad hoc” computer project (with financial cost to be determined) that would adapt the INFOREG application so that it could give access to the claimant only to certain fields. In this regard, it is appropriate to cite the Judgment on Appeal, of the Seventh Section of the Administrative Litigation Chamber of the National High Court, of May 30, 2019, which states that “the objective of the Law is not to create a legal database for use by professionals at the expense of the use of important human and material resources of the Public Administration and to the detriment of the normal performance of the functions of the organ in question.”