Transparency in regional regulatory bodies: striving for excellence

Abstract

Five years have passed since TRABUCOM began its theoretical and practical studies on the degree of transparency of the Spanish audiovisual sector. Only now can it be said that the political-economic circumstances have favored a minimal public response to the demands promoted by civil and scientific groups that, in their specialized works, had concluded the convenience of adopting political-economic modes already consecrated in our geographical and cultural environment. In 2011 there have been two changes in institutional attitudes long and directly This already had its antecedent in the historic "residency trial"³ that had fallen into oblivion. The pressure on the previous government to adopt a Law on Transparency of Public Institutions had failed, without it being possible to say that delaying manoeuvres had been carried out, since we have come to read and study two draft transparency laws of the socialist government. The vice-president of the People's Party announced on 26 December, when presenting to the Director of Communication Carmen Martínez de Castro, that there will be a law on This circumstance is repeated in the theoretical-practical study presented here. A fairly significant number of Spanish audiovisual agents, many of whom have echoed the current calls for openness and good governance over the past five years, have refused to open up to society in aspects that are no longer confidential or reserved, but of strict public relevance, by virtue of the origin of the money they handle (public budgets, public aid, subsidies) or depending on the public consequences of their actions (administrative acts, in some cases, and social impact resolutions, in others).