Overview

• Spain’s Council of Ministers approved the initial procedures for the draft Open Administration law, which remains an anteproyecto pending a second Cabinet review and a vote in the Cortes Generales.
• The measures would require publication of institutional agendas and official travel for senior officials down to subdirector‑general, extending obligations to Congress, the Senate and, for the Royal Household, its managerial staff.
• Government sources say meetings with lobbyists or intermediaries, including encounters like those attributed to Víctor de Aldama, would have to be published, with definitions of what counts as institutional versus personal still to be finalized.
• The draft introduces a first sanctions regime empowering the Transparency Council to levy coercive fines ranging from €600 to €1,000 for noncompliance.
• Trusted advisers would need to post their CVs and declarations of activities and assets on the Transparency Portal and face their own sanctions, and the text adds citizen audits to evaluate public‑sector actions with the state auditor.