From today and until 28 May, to promote citizen participation, through the Transparency Portal and the Ministry’s website, of the draft laws on transparency and integrity in the activities of interest groups and on the prevention of conflicts of interest of personnel serving the public sector.
Prior consultation is a procedure provided for in Law 39/2015, of the Common Administrative Procedure of the Public Administrations with the aim of improving the participation of citizens in the procedure of elaboration of standards.
The preliminary draft law on transparency and integrity in the activities of interest groups aims to achieve the following objectives:
- Definition of the groups and groups concerned
- Establishment of rules on advertising and registration
- Definition of the duties and obligations of the members of these groups
- Limitations of revolving doors between senior officials and public employees on the one hand and interest groups on the other
- Establishment of a code of conduct
- Assignment of the management of this register to the Office for Conflicts of Interest (OIC), given its competences on the control of conflicts of interest of senior officials and public employees.
The preliminary draft law on the prevention of conflicts of interest of staff in the public sector aims to:
- Establish a new system for the prevention of conflicts of interest and incompatibilities between public sector employees.
- To regulate the performance of new forms of professional activities that are not covered by the current regulations.
- New regulation of activities exempted from the incompatibilities scheme
- To establish limitations on the performance of private activities in cases of administrative situations other than those of active service.
- Establish a new and more rigorous system of conflict of interest prevention for prospective staff.
Access the space for prior public consultation of the Preliminary Draft Laws