This law promotes transparency and access to public information and establishes the basis for the exercise of the right to information. It encompasses all entities of power (Legislative, Judicial, Executive), autonomous institutions, municipalities, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Private Development Organizations (PDOs), and all natural or legal persons receiving or managing public funds, regardless of their origin.
Institutions are required to publish information related to their management or, where appropriate, provide all information related to the application of public funds that they manage or have been guaranteed by the State. All procedures for selecting contractors and the contracts concluded must be published on the site administered by the Office for Standardized Contracting and Acquisitions (ONCAE).
To comply with their duty of transparency, institutions must maintain subsystems with sufficient human and technical support, allowing the systematisation of information, provision of a consultation service, and citizen access, as well as its publication when appropriate through available electronic or written means. Each institution will designate a Public Information Officer responsible for the subsystem and supply the requested information, provided it is not declared reserved in accordance with Article 17 of the law.
The law also mandates that obligated institutions must continually train and update their staff in the culture of access to information, the culture of informational openness, transparency of public management, among other items.
In terms of transparency in commercial and contractual relationships with the State, the law obliges all private individuals, the State, and all public institutions to govern their commercial relationships with the obligated institutions by the principles of good faith, transparency, and fair competition when participating in bidding processes, contracts, concessions, sales, auctions of works, or competitions.
The law prohibits any person from forcing another to provide personal data that could originate discrimination or cause property or moral harm or risk to individuals.