Spain · Transparency & Access to Information

Spain's transparency law, with binding CTBG appeals built in

AccessPoint manages access-to-information requests under Ley 19/2013 de transparencia, acceso a la información pública y buen gobierno — the one-month resolution, the Article 14 límites, and the binding reclamación to the Consejo de Transparencia y Buen Gobierno — pre-configured for Spain and running inside your own Microsoft 365 tenant.

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Spain at a glance

Response deadline
One month from receipt by the competent body; extendable by a further month for volume or complexity (art. 20)
Reclamación
Binding claim to the CTBG within one month; resolved within three months, silence being a dismissal (arts. 23–24)
Limits
The Article 14 límites, applied proportionately, and the Article 15 personal-data weighting
Charges
Access is free; a charge only for issuing copies or format conversion (art. 22.4)
Oversight
Consejo de Transparencia y Buen Gobierno; then the contentious-administrative court
Languages
Spanish (Castilian); ships Spanish and English

Built for Spain

One platform for the whole access-and-privacy mandate, pre-configured for this regime and running in your own Microsoft 365 tenant.

Access-request lifecycle

Intake to resolution under Ley 19/2013 — the one-month decision, the Article 14 límites, the Article 15 data-protection weighting, and a record ready for the CTBG — all on Microsoft 365.

The binding CTBG reclamación

A refusal or administrative silence can be taken to the Consejo de Transparencia y Buen Gobierno within one month. AccessPoint tracks the filing window, assembles the file, and manages it to the CTBG's binding resolution.

The one-month clock

Resolve within one month of the request reaching the competent body, extendable by a further month for volume or complexity — computed and reminded for you, with the silence-as-denial point flagged (art. 20).

Límites and data protection

Apply the Article 14 límites proportionately, weigh personal data under Article 15, and disassociate where anonymisation allows release — on a colour-coded, audit-trailed redaction record.

Free access, copy charges

Access to the information is free; a charge applies only to issuing copies or converting to a different format, under the Tasas y Precios Públicos regime (art. 22.4) — computed with an estimate on request.

In your own tenant

Every request and record stays inside your own Microsoft 365 and Azure tenant — no third-party cloud, no cross-border transfers, and no per-user fees.

The binding CTBG reclamación

In Spain, a refusal isn't the last word — the Consejo de Transparencia can order the information released.

Ley 19/2013 makes disclosure the rule, but a refusal — or administrative silence — is not the end. Instead of an ordinary administrative appeal, the requester can bring a reclamación to the Consejo de Transparencia y Buen Gobierno within one month. The CTBG is independent, and its resolution is binding on the administration: it can order the information released, and only the contentious-administrative court can set that ruling aside. AccessPoint tracks the one-month filing window, assembles the file for the CTBG, and manages it through to the binding resolution.

One month to claim The reclamación is filed within a month of the decision or of the silence, tracked from the resolution.
A binding resolution The CTBG decision is de obligado cumplimiento for the administration, resolved within three months.
Then the courts Only the contentious-administrative court can set the CTBG's ruling aside.

Configured out of the box

Installing the es-transparencia configuration pack seeds your tenant with everything this regime needs — a starting point you can adjust, not a lock-in.

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  • Ley 19/2013 de transparencia (BOE-A-2013-12887) as the legal-authority and citation spine
  • The Spanish national and autonomous-community holiday calendar with the one-month resolution due-date rules
  • The binding CTBG reclamación workflow — the one-month filing window and the three-month resolution clock (arts. 23–24)
  • The Article 14 límites, colour-coded for redaction, with the proportionality test
  • The Article 15 personal-data weighting and disassociation for mixed records
  • Fee rules under the Tasas y Precios Públicos regime for copies and format conversion (art. 22.4)
  • Spanish timeliness tracking, including the silence-as-denial rule (art. 20.4)
  • Access correspondence templates in Spanish and English with the statutory wording

Spain Questions

When must a Spanish body respond to an access request?
The resolution granting or refusing access must be notified within one month of the request reaching the body competent to decide; where the volume or complexity of the information requires it, the period may be extended by a further month with prior notice to the applicant. If that period passes without an express, notified resolution, the request is understood to be refused (art. 20). AccessPoint computes both clocks and flags the silence point.

What makes Spain different — the CTBG reclamación?
Yes. In place of an ordinary administrative appeal, a requester may bring a reclamación to the Consejo de Transparencia y Buen Gobierno within one month of the decision or the silence; the CTBG must resolve within three months, and its resolution is binding on the administration (arts. 23–24). Only the contentious-administrative court can then set it aside. AccessPoint tracks the filing window, assembles the file, and manages it to the binding resolution.

What can a body charge?
Access to the information itself is free, and electronic delivery is preferred; a charge may apply only to issuing copies or converting the information to a different format, under the Tasas y Precios Públicos legislation or the applicable regional or local rules (art. 22.4). AccessPoint computes the charge and issues an estimate on request.

Where does data reside?
Entirely within your own Microsoft 365 and Azure tenant. Requests, documents, and audit history never leave your control — no third-party cloud, no vendor access, and no cross-border data transfers.

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