SUMMARY

A citizen submitted a request for access to information addressed to the Ministry of Health to access data on certain medicines during the year 2018: volume, contracting system and price of medicines, broken down by hospital center or contracting platform and by medicine.

The Ministry provided information that the applicant found to be incomplete.

The Council of Transparency and Good Government considered the complaint, considering that no cause of inadmissibility or limit of those provided for in the Transparency Law is indicated that prevents the provision of information (beyond the alleged confidentiality of the commercial data of the distribution companies) and that the requested information is available to the Ministry, prevailing the right of access to information.