Consejo de Transparencia y Buen Gobierno

What Consejo de Transparencia y Buen Gobierno does

The Consejo de Transparencia y Buen Gobierno (CTBG) is an Independent Administrative Authority (Autoridad Administrativa Independiente) established in 2014 under the Spanish Ministry of Finance and Public Function, created pursuant to Ley 19/2013 (the Spanish Transparency Law enacted in December 2013). Headquartered in Madrid, the organization safeguards citizens' constitutional right of access to public information and monitors transparency obligations of public administrations at the state level. It serves primarily individual Spanish citizens who file claims when government entities deny information access requests, and secondarily the public administrations subject to transparency obligations under the LTAIBG framework.

The CTBG operates a web-based service platform consisting of an institutional portal (consejodetransparencia.es), a Sede Electrónica for online claims submission, a dedicated transparency portal, and a comprehensive resolutions database covering state, regional, and local scope from 2015 to present. Additional offerings include annual activity reports, strategic planning documents (currently the 2022-2025 plan), publications containing interpretative criteria, and an internal reporting channel for whistleblower complaints. The core technology is described as a web portal with electronic headquarters for processing transparency claims and publishing resolutions. The platform does not offer public API access or AI/ML capabilities.

As a government administrative authority, the CTBG is funded through the Spanish national budget and provides services free of charge to citizens; no commercial pricing model applies. The entity recorded 2,767 claims in 2025 — the highest figure to date, representing a 40.2% year-over-year increase — indicating rising operational demand. With approximately 12 employees, the organization is lean relative to its caseload. Leadership is headed by President Concepción Campos, with a Data Protection Officer (Enrique Orduña Prada) overseeing compliance. The entity maintains cooperation agreements with Spain's Autonomous Communities and universities for regulatory coordination and academic collaboration.

Name

Consejo de Transparencia y Buen Gobierno

Legal name

Consejo de Transparencia y Buen Gobierno

Website

https://consejodetransparencia.es

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The Consejo de Transparencia y Buen Gobierno is Spain's independent administrative authority, established in 2014 to oversee state-level transparency compliance and resolve citizens' claims regarding access to public information held by government entities.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Government Transparency Regulation

NAICS

Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support (921)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYHDADAFAH

Privacy Management (Consent, DSAR, RoPA)

Hardware, Technology & Telecom/Cybersecurity/Data Security & Privacy (DLP, Encryption, Key Mgmt)

SECONDARYHDADAIAI

Privacy Governance & Consent Management

Hardware, Technology & Telecom/Cybersecurity/Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC)

Keywords

• Transparency oversight
• Public information access
• Government claims resolution
• Regulatory authority services
• Open government compliance

Headquarters

HQ city

Madrid

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

The Consejo de Transparencia y Buen Gobierno (CTBG) is a Spanish Independent Administrative Authority (Autoridad Administrativa Independiente) established under the Transparency Law (Ley 19/2013) to safeguard citizens' right of access to public information at the state level. It processes and resolves transparency claims filed by citizens against public administrations that deny or fail to respond to information access requests, issues binding resolutions, publishes interpretative criteria and recommendations, and monitors compliance with transparency obligations across state, autonomous, and local government entities.

Product overview

The Consejo de Transparencia y Buen Gobierno operates as an Independent Administrative Authority (Autoridad Administrativa Independiente) providing transparency oversight and right-to-information services in Spain. The organization offers a web-based service platform consisting of an institutional portal, an electronic headquarters (Sede Electrónica) for online claims processing, a dedicated transparency portal, and a comprehensive resolutions database covering state, regional, and local scope from 2015-2026. Additional offerings include annual reports, strategic planning documents, publications with interpretive criteria and reports, and an internal reporting channel for whistleblower complaints. The platform does not offer public API access or AI/ML capabilities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Claims Resolution Service (Reclamaciones)

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Autonomous CommunitiescoreOthersCollaboration agreements (convenios de colaboración) with regional governments for transparency oversight in matters of autonomous and local scope. The Council handles claims that fall under regional and local jurisdiction through its specialized subdivisions.
• UniversitiesminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration agreements with universities for academic cooperation. Mentioned include protocols for collaboration with academic institutions.
• Banco de EspañaminorOthersMeeting held between the Council's President and the Governor of the Bank of Spain on July 20, 2026, indicating institutional cooperation.
• Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo (UIMP)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborative training program on algorithmic transparency and the future of public administration, conducted as a three-day course.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Regional players

• Bundesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit (BfDI): Germany's federal commissioner for data protection and freedom of information. Combines oversight of both data protection and IFG (Informationsfreiheitsgesetz) access requests, closely paralleling CTBG's mandate but in a different national context.
• Conseil d'État (France): France's supreme administrative court and a key arbiter of administrative transparency disputes, including CADA (Commission d'accès aux documents administratifs) referrals. Plays a comparable oversight role in administrative transparency, though embedded within the judicial system.
• Commission d'accès à l'information du Québec: Quebec's independent access-to-information commission. Handles FOI disputes and publishes resolutions comparable in function to CTBG, but operates at a sub-national level outside Spain.
• Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC): Australia's independent regulator for freedom of information and privacy. Performs a near-identical mandate to CTBG — adjudicating FOI disputes and issuing binding decisions — but operates in a different jurisdiction.

Others

• Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC): Spain's national regulator for markets and competition. While its mandate is economic rather than transparency-focused, it shares the Spanish AAI structural model and similar institutional design as CTBG.
• Transparency International: The leading global NGO focused on government transparency, anti-corruption, and accountability. Although non-governmental and internationally oriented, it is thematically adjacent and produces research that frames the demand environment CTBG operates within.

Direct peers

• Defensora del Pueblo: Spain's national ombudsman, providing independent oversight of public administration and citizen rights vis-à-vis government bodies. Functions as a parallel domestic oversight authority with comparable scope and structural independence.
• Information Commissioner's Office (ICO): The UK's independent regulator for information rights, freedom of information, and data protection. ICO is a direct functional analog to CTBG in handling freedom-of-information disputes, issuing binding decisions, and operating an established oversight regime — the closest international peer in terms of mandate.
• Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD): Spain's independent data protection authority, structurally analogous to CTBG as a Spanish Autoridad Administrativa Independiente. Both are domestic oversight bodies with statutory independence, dispute resolution powers, and similar headcount scales, but AEPD oversees personal data rights rather than public information access.

Broad incumbents

• European Data Protection Board (EDPB): The EU-level body composed of national data protection authorities that ensures consistent application of GDPR across member states. Provides the broader regulatory framework within which Spanish oversight authorities like CTBG operate.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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