Recurring: Particular

Recurred resolution: R/0997/2023

In exercise of the right of access to public information, a request was submitted to the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Government for access to various information on the procedure followed in the deposit and delivery of gifts received by the President of the Government during his term of office.

The requested agency decided to grant access to information regarding the deposit of gifts, security measures of the units in which they are kept and unit in charge of the management of the assets during the term of the President and once he ceases in office; it also indicates that there is no specific budget for the exercise of these functions, but that the ordinary management of the assets of the Public Administrations, in accordance with the provisions of Law 33/2003, of 3 November, and its development regulations, is charged to the budgetary credit corresponding to the nature of the expenditure, within Program 912M: Presidency of the Government, authorized in the annual laws of General Budgets of the State. The Claimant, for its part, disagrees that it has not been informed of all the issues raised in its request.

In its resolution, the Council dismisses the complaint, having indicated that the Administration does not have more information than the one provided, taking into account that the pre-existence of the information is an essential budget for the exercise of the right to public information, regardless of whether it should or should not exist.