Recurrent: Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge

Recurred resolution: R/0382/2024

In exercise of the right of access to public information, a request was submitted to the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge for access to various information on awards in favour of a certain professor as an expert or expert in Arbitral Procedures, Judicial Execution Procedures and Judicial Annulment Procedures to which the Kingdom of Spain is a party.

The requested Ministry did not respond within the legally established time limit so that the request was deemed rejected by silence and expedites the way of the claim provided for in article 24 LTAIBG. In addition, it did not reply to the request for a file and allegations made in the course of the proceedings before the Council, so it is not possible to know the reasons behind the refusal to grant access to information.

Once the claim has been filed, the Council considers it, given that the requested documentation has the status of public information, and that the entity claimed has not justified the application of any of the limits provided for in articles 14 and 15 of the LTAIBG, nor the concurrence of a cause of inadmissibility of its article 18.