Havana. Cuba’s unicameral Nationwide Meeting of Folks’s Energy permitted an unprecedented legislation on transparency and entry to data on Thursday, which establishes authorized obligations for state our bodies.
The Minister of Science, Know-how and Surroundings (Citma), Eduardo Martínez, was the one who introduced the brand new regulation to the plenary session of the legislative physique.
“It regulates, controls and promotes the tradition of transparency in public administration, contributes to fashionable management over public administration acts and contributes to the achievement of Sustainable Growth Purpose 16 and its targets,” stated the minister.
He stated that the brand new laws constitutes “the very best expression of the political will of the State and authorities to make its administration clear.”
Martínez stated that the laws “will contribute to decreasing administrative corruption and bribery, to creating efficient and clear establishments that reply to the necessity for entry to public data, in addition to to defending elementary freedoms, in accordance with nationwide laws and worldwide agreements to which Cuba is a signatory.”
As well as, he stated, it implements the mechanisms that assure residents’ entry to data from the Public Administration, understood as that which is generated or saved by topics within the train of their public capabilities, in addition to by pure and authorized individuals who obtain financing and different public advantages.
The legislation states that candidates are chargeable for using public data, and that in the event that they accomplish that improperly, they might assume administrative, civil or prison legal responsibility, in accordance with present laws.
Exceptions to public entry are categorised or restricted data and people circumstances, info or attributes that, if disclosed, represent harm, hazard, affectation or violation of sovereignty, protection and nationwide safety.
Exceptions are additionally made to data that features private information, pending judicial or administrative proceedings, mental property rights, confidentiality of economic information and the atmosphere.
In response to the island’s authorities, 11 nationwide decree-laws had been studied in an effort to draft the brand new legislation, in addition to a comparative examine of 123 transparency and entry to data legal guidelines all over the world.
Of the 33 international locations in Latin America and the Caribbean, 28 have any such laws, which is unprecedented in Cuba.
The Cuban parliament is scheduled to debate on Friday payments associated to administrative procedures, decorations and honorary titles of the Republic of Cuba, and migration.
On Saturday, the final day of the legislative plenary session, the draft legal guidelines on citizenship and immigration may even be debated.
This 12 months, Cuban parliamentarians are anticipated to debate 17 legal guidelines and 15 decree-laws as a part of the annual legislative schedule.
Over the subsequent three years, the nation additionally plans to draft, focus on and approve 37 different legal guidelines.
All these legal guidelines type a authorized physique that enhances the brand new Structure permitted by fashionable referendum on February 24, 2019.
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– 2024-07-22 13:32:32
