Summary.
The bill proposes expanding transparency duties concerning public infrastructure administered or held in the custody of public entities. Article 1 would add item 7 to Article 9 of Law 6 of 2002, requiring the publication of inspection, technical assessment, and maintenance reports. The disclosed information would include dates, contractors, costs, schedules, results, and corrective measures taken. Public entities would update it at least every six (6) months and keep it available to the public in a digital, open, and accessible format on both their institutional websites and the single transparency portal.
Article 2 describes an addition to Law 6 of January 22, 2002, under the number 8-A, while the provision reproduced in the bill is headed “Article 18-A. Citizen oversight of public infrastructure.” It would require public entities to provide a digital space on their transparency portals. Citizens could use that space to view and download published inspection and maintenance reports and to submit comments on them. The article would classify failure to comply with this requirement as a serious administrative offense under Article 23 of the law cited in the provision.
Article 3 assigns the National Authority for Transparency and Access to Information (Autoridad Nacional de Transparencia y Acceso a la Información, ANTAI), the governing body for transparency and access to public information, responsibility for issuing technical guidelines. Those guidelines would standardize the inspection and maintenance data concerning public infrastructure and govern their publication. The Authority would issue them within sixty (60) days following promulgation. This provision addresses the data subject to the bill’s disclosure requirement and accompanies the publication and digital access duties set out in the preceding articles.
Article 4 again identifies the addition of item 7 to Article 9 and of a new Article 18-A, but names Law 6 of 2022 as the receiving statute. Article 5 provides that the proposed law would take effect sixty (60) days after its promulgation. The text thus connects periodic report publication, citizen participation through transparency portals, and technical standardization of data to the statutory framework for transparency in public administration.
The proposal concerns the National Authority for Transparency and Access to Information (Autoridad Nacional de Transparencia y Acceso a la Información, ANTAI) and public entities that administer or hold public infrastructure in their custody. Its provisions could also be relevant to citizens who consult the reports and to contractors involved in infrastructure inspections, technical assessments, maintenance, or corrective work.
What it proposes.
- Disclosure of reports on public infrastructure.
- Public access and comments through transparency portals.
- Standardization of inspection and maintenance data.
Who it would affect.
- Public entities that administer or hold public infrastructure in their custody.
- Citizens who view reports and submit comments.
- Contractors identified in the published reports.
Key points.
- Public entities would publish inspection, technical assessment, and maintenance reports on infrastructure under their administration or custody.Art. 1
- The reports would include dates, contractors, costs, schedules, results, and corrective measures taken.Art. 1
- The information would be updated at least every six (6) months and made available in a digital, open, and accessible format on two portals.Art. 1
- Public entities would provide a digital space for viewing and downloading reports and submitting citizen comments.Art. 2
- Failure to provide that space would be treated as a serious administrative offense under Article 23 of the law cited.Art. 2
- The National Authority for Transparency and Access to Information (Autoridad Nacional de Transparencia y Acceso a la Información, ANTAI) would issue technical guidelines within sixty (60) days following promulgation.Art. 3
- The final provision identifies the addition of item 7 to Article 9 and of a new Article 18-A to Law 6 of 2022.Art. 4
- The proposed law would take effect sixty (60) days after promulgation.Art. 5