He The Government made progress today in modifying the regulations of the Law on Access to Public Informationthrough the redefinition of terminology and limiting access to private information.
Through a draft resolution, and at the request of an initiative of Margarita Stolbizer, the bench that he presides over Miguel Pichetto express “worry” in the face of a fact that considers that ““distorts the spirit of Law 27,275 on Access to Public Information.”
First, the opposition deputies asked “if the Executive Branch expressly consulted the Agency for Access to Public Information (AAIP) on the relevance, convenience and/or need to implement measures restricting access to public information“.
“If so, Report the reasons put forward by the AAIP to support or reject Decree 780/2024“, the legislators indicated in the letter addressed to the AAIP Access Agency and to the Office of the Chief of Ministers, on whom this body has functional dependence. “In the event that the AAIP has not been consulted on the scope of the aforementioned decree, Please indicate the Agency’s position on this matter.“, they added in the text.
They also requested that “a copy of the opinions issued by public agencies or departments within the framework of the administrative file that gave rise to the aforementioned Decree” be attached, as well as that “a copy of the consultations made to entities or organizations of civil society that are references in the matter and included in the administrative file that gave rise to the Decree” be attached. Decree 780/2024″.
“We understand that with this measure the government restricts the right of citizens to ask and be informed about public officials, who from the moment they make the decision to exercise positions in which resources of the government are administered, State must be subject to the control of society,” said the deputies of Federal Meeting in a statement.
The request for information is signed by the deputies Pichetto, Stolbizer, Emilio Monzo, Monica Fein, Ricardo Lopez Murphy, Oscar Agost Carreno, Nicolas Massot, Esteban Paulon and Juan Brügge.
Decree 780/24 amending the Law on Access to Public Information
Through Decree 780/2024, published this Monday in the Official Gazette, the Executive Branch regulated Article 1 of Law No. 27,275 in what they referred to as “good faith.” In this way, it was emphasized: “The violation of the principle of good faith by all the actors involved constitutes the assumption provided for in article 10 of the Civil and Commercial Code of the Nation.”
To implement the changes, the Libertarian administration also modified the concept and scope of what is known as “public information,” stating: “Information containing private data generated, obtained, transformed, controlled or held by private individuals or legal entities or due to the absence of a committed public interest, outside the management of the obligated subjects listed in Article 7 of Law No. 27,275 and its amendment, shall not be considered public information.”
Along the same lines, they did the same with the definition of “document”. The definition of document established in Law No. 27,275 and its amendment must be understood as referring to any record that has been generated, that is controlled or that is kept within the framework of state activity. Preparatory deliberations and working papers, or the preliminary examination of a matter, will not be considered documents of a public nature,” they clarified.
Source: Ambito
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