On 29 April, the 7th Congress on Good Governance and Transparency of the Valencian Community was held under the title ‘The reform of the Transparency Law’.
If you were unable to attend, the Open Government, Participation and Open Data (PAGODA) Chair has uploaded the recordings of the three panel discussions.
Roundtable 1: Nature of the right of access, aim, scope of the law and its interaction with other regimes.
- 'Aim and subjective scope’, Severiano Fernández Ramos, Full Professor of Administrative Law, University of Cádiz.
- 'Nature of the right of access and enforcement of the law for constitutional bodies’, Yolanda Gómez Sánchez, Full Professor of Constitutional Law, UNED (National University of Distance Education) and former Director of the Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies (CEPC).
- 'Legal and constitutional conformity of the law and proposals for reform concerning the nature of the right and the various special regimes’, Eloísa Pérez Conchillo, Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Researcher.
- Debate moderated by Remedio Sánchez Ferriz, Full Professor of Constitutional Law at the Universitat de València.
Mesa 2: Efectivitat, límits i exercici del dret d'accés.
- 'The effectiveness of the right of access: proposals for reform of the Transparency Law’, Isaac Martín Delgado, Full Professor of Administrative Law, University of Castilla-La Mancha and Director of the UCLM Chair for Open Government.
- 'The limits of the State Law and its interaction with regional laws, in particular economic and commercial interests’, Clara I. Velasco Rico, Vice-president of the Commission for Guaranteeing the Right of Access to Public Information (GAIP) and Serra Húnter Associate Professor of Administrative Law of the Pompeu Fabra University (on leave).
- 'Audience of interested third parties and limits of data protection’, Jesús Jiménez López, Director of the Council of Transparency and Data Protection of Andalusia.
- Debate moderated by Lorenzo Cotino, Full Professor of Constitutional Law at the Universitat de València.
Mesa 3: Publicitat activa, òrgans de garantia, règim sancionador i execució forçosa.
- 'The reform of active publicity’, Miguel Ángel Blanes, doctor in Law and Legal Technical of the Valencian Community Ombudsman.
- 'Guarantors in the reform of the law’, Rafael Rubio Núñez, Full Professor of Constitutional Law and President of the Council of Transparency and Participation of the Community of Madrid.
- 'Proposal for reforms on the enforcement of transparency obligations and sanctions system’, Joaquín Meseguer Yebra, Academic Network of International Open Government; Coordinator of the transparency group of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP).
- Debate moderated by Raquel Valle, Professor of Political Science at the Universitat de València.
The congress complete programme is available in the following link:
