On 7 July last, the report on Preventive Systems of Public Integrity in the General Administration of the State for comments by members of the Public Integrity Working Group of the Open Government Forum.

The Open Government Plans of Spain include all the actions undertaken by the General Government of the State, in collaboration with other public administrations and with civil society, to advance, in a certain period, in participation, transparency, integrity and social awareness, and thus achieve a more just, peaceful and inclusive society.

The IV Open Government Plan, approved on October 29, 2020, contains 10 commitments assumed by the public administrations in the lines indicated, and one of the actions it envisages, within the area referred to Public Integrity, is to develop a diagnosis of integrity management in AGE from a preventive point of view.

This means obtaining information to plan a framework for improvement actions in the area of integrity for the responsible persons and other staff of the organisations, thereby strengthening public confidence in the public service.

The IV Plan assigned the impulse responsibility for this measure to the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Civil Service, in collaboration with other public sector actors (mainly the other ministries through the corresponding Inspections of Departmental Services and its Coordinating Commission) and other public administrations through the Open Government Sector Commission and the Inter-Administrative Quality Network in the public sector.

For its implementation, from the General Directorate of Public Governance of the Ministry responsible, a link was sent to all the General Inspections of Departmental Services to an online questionnaire on integrity, elaborated in the DGGP itself, with the aim of making this general diagnosis of the preventive systems of public integrity existing in the AGE, having been previously informed about it.

This document presents the results of this diagnostic survey, from which to identify strengths, weaknesses and threats and opportunities in this regard. It will then be possible to promote the development of the various tools mentioned above, which strengthen the values and principles of public integrity, as well as training and awareness-raising in this area.

The Open Government Forum is an area of ongoing participation and dialogue between public administrations (state, regional and local) and representatives of civil society, the aim of which is to promote collaboration, transparency, participation and accountability. It involves, with the same number of representatives, public administrations and civil society.