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What do you need to know?
Is that the right people have access to information produced by government and that it has in its possession as a result of their activity or the exercise of their duties, including that supplied others liable under the law (article 18 of Law 19/2014, of 29 December, transparency, access to public information and good governance).
It is a right individually or on behalf of any legal person legally constituted not conditioned on a personal interest or motivation nor subject to any rule invocation.
To people over 16, individually or on behalf of any duly constituted legal person.
Application can be made at any time.
From 1 June, the calculation of all the terms that, in accordance with Law 19/2014, of 29 December, are applicable for the processing of applications for access to public information, and that have been suspended, will be resumed at the time and procedure in which they were suspended, more information see the information note.
Documentation to support the written petition may be submitted.
Petitions must be made in writing, through any medium which allows their authenticity to be verified, providing the following requirements are met:
- A record exists of despatch and receipt, of the dates of these and of the whole of the content sent.
- The sender and the recipient of the communication must be identified.
- The citizens in question must have specified their preferred medium, means or application for communicating with the Administration of the Catalan Government at any point in the processing of the procedure or the progress of the administrative action.
- he citizen may use the suggestion or enquiry mailboxes in the 'Services and Procedures' section of the web pages of Catalan Government departments and ministries.
No fees are associated with this procedure.
Steps to follow
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Step one
Apply
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Step two
Provide documentation
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Step three
Receive the reply from the Administration
When will the reply be received?
When will the reply be received?
As a general rule, the Administration should answer all access to information requests within a period of one month, though this term may be suspended or extended in accordance with the legally provided circumstances. In the event that you do not receive a reply within this period your request can be deemed accepted, with the limitations provided for in Article 35 of the aforementioned Law.
What kind of reply is received?
Once your application has been presented you will receive a notification indicating the day it was received, the body responsible for resolving the matter, the deadline for doing so and the person responsible for the procedure.
If the application is resolved favourably, the competent body must provide the information to the applicant within a period of 30 days, preferably in the format requested.
Can an appeal be presented?
Express or presumed resolutions may be the object of an optional appeal for reversal lodged before the body that has issued them. These resolutions and, if applicable, those that resolve the appeal for reversal, may be the object of a free and voluntary claim made to the Commission Guaranteeing the Right of Access to Public Information. Applicants may also lodge an appeal for judicial review or employ any other means of challenge or defence they consider appropriate.
