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The Cádiz Free Trade Zone continues to improve transparency compliance and is among the most transparent in Spain

The Cádiz Consortium obtains an 84.4% Compliance Index with Mandatory Information in the annual review report of the Transparency and Good Governance Council (CTBG) in matters of Active Advertising

This valuationThe positive score is above the average obtained by the General State Administration last year and stands out from the scores of the rest of the Free Zones.

The State delegate, Fran González, highlights that the data from the CTBG report “confirms the entity's commitment to efficient management that has managed to place the Consortium in the mosts violas istransparency standards in areas as relevant as patrimonial, organizational and planning informationn o econ“omics and budget”

Tuesday, May 2, 2024

The Cádiz Free Trade Zone stands out in its commitment to transparency and information to citizens. This is clear from the latest report reviewing compliance with the recommendations of the Transparency and Good Governance Council (CTBG) regarding active advertising, which places it at 84.4% in the Mandatory Information Compliance Index (ICIO), which represents an increase of 5.2 percentage points over the figure obtained in 2023, 79.20%.

In the conclusions, the Transparency and Good Governance Council positively values ​​the evolution of the achievement of active advertising obligations by the Consortium, highlighting that the Free Trade Zone has applied 73% of the recommendations made as a result of the evaluation carried out in 2023.

These data place the Cádiz Free Zone above the results obtained in 2023 by the General State Administration, which obtained 81% and well ahead of the rest of the Free Zones in Spain, which do not exceed 42.90% in The best case.

The State delegate in the Free Trade Zone, Fran González, has assessed these data “very satisfactorily.” “The conclusions presented by the Transparency and Good Government Council confirm the effort made in recent years to achieve efficient management that is open to citizens. In addition to having achieved a healthy and solvent entity thanks to the application of the Viability Plan, we have managed to place the Consortium in the highest standards of transparency in areas as relevant as asset, organizational and planning or economic and budgetary information.

“The citizens of Cádiz already perceive the Cádiz Free Trade Zone as an institution that is more open to the city, more involved than ever in its well-being, providing solutions and working jointly with the rest of the institutions and economic and social agents,” Fran González has emphasized, who has clarified that work will continue on the margin of improvement that exists in the parameters indicated by the Transparency and Good Governance Council to achieve full compliance.

Categoryías and evaluation criterian

The Transparency and Good Governance Council report assesses compliance with active advertising in categories such as institutional, organizational and planning information; asset information or economic, budgetary and statistical information, among others, which it evaluates following the following criteria: content, that which is required by Law 19/21013; form, that is, the way of presenting the information; update and if the date of the information is identified; accessibility, that is, the number of clicks to access the information from the main transparency page; clarity or reusability.

In this sense, the Consortium stands out greatly in terms of asset information, where it obtains the highest score in all the criteria evaluated. It also obtains an outstanding mark in the publicity of institutional, organizational and planning information and a notable high in economic, budgetary and statistical information.

On the other hand, it should be noted that the Consortium is one of the few entities that presents observations and comments to the Compliance Review Report with the recommendations made by the Transparency and Good Governance Council, as proposed by said Council.

It should be noted that the report has also evaluated the company Desarrollos Empresariales, of the Cádiz Free Zone Group, and that it also draws conclusions with a very positive assessment of the effort made to improve compliance with the active advertising obligations that are imposed on it. of application. Thus, 67% of the recommendations made have been applied and, as a consequence of this, the Compliance Index has increased by 740%, going from a valuation of 6.8% in 2023 to 57.1% in 2024 .

Note that the Transparency and Good Governance Council annually submits to the Cortes Generales a report on the development of its activities and on the degree of compliance with the provisions established in the Transparency Law, access to public information and good governance.

Among its functions are adopting recommendations for better compliance with the obligations contained in the transparency law, advising on matters of transparency, access to public information and good governance, and mandatory reporting on state regulatory projects that develop the Transparency Law. , access to public information and good governance, or that are related to its purpose and evaluate the degree of application of the Law on Transparency, Access to Public Information and Good Governance, among others.