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After two previous processes of participation and after agreeing the document in the Transparency Commission, the legislation, agreed with the political groups, begins a new phase that will culminate with the definitive approval that is expected to occur in the autumn.
The ordinance will allow the implementation of the measures of transparent local governments, facilitating the so-called "open government" and the use of transparency for accountability before the citizen "because a government that does not answer to the citizen is not legitimized before the same"
Listening to the voices of the citizens, their opinions and their suggestions, is a previous step that the City of Murcia has been forced to comply before the decision-making of any area.
As a result of this, and after months of preparation, meetings of the Transparency Commission integrated by all the municipal groups, debates, citizen days, design of a web page and contributions of experts, the Governing Board has given green light to the project Of the Transparency, Access to Information, Data Reuse and Good Governance Ordinance, promoted by the Department of Modernization of Administration, Urban Quality and Participation, directed by José Guillén.
The regulations, to which most of the suggestions submitted have been incorporated, have been agreed upon by all municipal groups.
Its purpose is to ensure transparency in the performance of the City of Murcia, as well as free access to its public information, and re-use of it, establishing the necessary means for this, which will preferably be electronic.
It also guarantees the right of individuals to access public information.
With this approval, the City Council places as a fundamental axis of political action the principles of transparency, access to information and rules of good governance to "enable greater control of political activity by citizens And its practical consequence, participation as a fundamental principle of the modern Administration, "said José Guillén.
The approval of this text will allow the City Council to initiate the effective implementation of the measures of local governments transparent, facilitating, on the one hand, the so-called "open government", as the administration closest to the citizen and its principles, and on the other hand, through The use of transparency for accountability, "because a government that does not answer to the citizen, is not legitimized before it."
Guillén says that "we have invested many months of work to define a regulation that can become the most direct, simple, accessible and convenient way for all Murcia to be involved in making decisions that affect them in their day to day."
The ordinance will be the "cornerstone on which will rotate the relationship of citizens with the City Council in all matters related to local administration," said Guillén, who recalls that "if we want the Murcia participate and intervene in the construction of Murcia , It is essential to ensure adequate channels for them to do so. "
This tool will be the new Transparency, Access to Information, Data Reuse and Good Governance Ordinance.
Eight general principles govern this text: advertising of information, active publicity, reuse, immediate and electronic access, treatment of personal data, quality of information, service commitment and universal accessibility of information.
It also details the rights of people in this area:
To access information subject to advertising obligations.
To be informed if the documents containing the information requested or from which they can derive this information, whether or not they are in the possession of the organ or entity, in which case, they will give account of the destiny given to those documents.
To be assisted in your search for information.
To receive the appropriate advice and in understandable terms for the exercise of the right of access.
To receive the information requested within the deadlines and in the form or channel chosen in accordance with the provisions of the Ordinance.
To know the reasons on which the denial of access to the requested information is based and, where appropriate, in a form or format different from the one chosen.
To obtain the requested information free of charge, without prejudice to the payment, where applicable, of the fees that correspond to the issuance of copies or transposition to different formats of the original, or for the charges derived from actions to re-elaborate the information.
Following the approval by the Governing Board of the draft ordinance, the document will be submitted to the plenary committee for approval and will then receive initial approval by the Plenary of the Corporation.
From that moment on, exposure to the public and subsequent resolution of the allegations will take place, as a preliminary step to final approval by the Plenary, which is expected to take place in the autumn.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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