(Evening Version)
OFFICIAL GAZETTE
Monday, May 04, 2015
Article 31. The National System has the following functions:
I.
Establish guidelines, instruments, objectives, indicators, targets, strategies, codes of best practices,
comprehensive, systematic, continuous and measurable models and policies, designed to meet the
objectives of this Act;
II.
Promote and implement actions to ensure accessibility for vulnerable groups to exercise, on an
equal footing, the right of access to information;
III.
Develop and establish common national programs for the promotion, research, diagnosis and
dissemination in matters of transparency, access to information, protection of personal data and
open government in the country;
IV.
Set the criteria for the publication of the indicators that allow regulated entities to be accountable for
meeting their objectives and results;
V.
Assist in the development, promotion and dissemination among the regulated entities of the criteria
for the systematization and conservation of files that allow public information to be efficiently located
in accordance with the regulations on the subject matter;
VI.
Establish guidelines for the implementation of the National Platform of Transparency in accordance
with the provisions of this Act;
VII.
Establish policies regarding the digitization of public information in possession of the regulated
entities and the use of information technologies and the implementation of Reasonable Adjustments,
to ensure full access thereto;
VIII.
Design and implement policies for the generation, updating, organization, classification, publication,
dissemination, preservation and accessibility of public information in accordance with applicable
regulations;
IX.
Promote citizen participation through effective mechanisms in the planning, implementation and
evaluation of policies in this area;
X.
Establish programs of professionalization, updating and training of Public Servants and members of
the regulated entities on transparency, access to public information and protection of personal data;
XI.
Issue agreements and resolutions for the general operation of the National System;
XII.
Approve, implement and evaluate the National Program of Transparency and Access to Information;
XIII.
Promote the exercise of the right of access to public information all over Mexico;
XIV.
Promote the effective coordination of the bodies that make up the National System and follow up
their actions established for this purpose, and
XV.
Any others arising from this Act.
In developing the criteria referred to in section IV, at least one representative of each of the members of the
National System shall participate, as well as a representative of the National Council of Accounting
Harmonization, foreseen in Article 6 of the General Act of Government Accounting, which may speak and may
submit written comments to the criteria, which will be considered, but shall have no binding force. Once the
National Council approves the criteria, they will be mandatory for all entities.
Article 32. The National System will have a National Council, composed of the same members and will be
chaired by the President of the Institute.
Guarantor Agencies will be represented by their head or, in the absence thereof, by a Commissioner of the
guarantor agency designated by the Plenary of the same.
The other members will be represented by their representatives or an alternate who shall have minimum level
of Director General or the like, who will have the same powers as the representatives.
Article 33. The National Council may invite, based on the nature of the matters to be discussed, people,
institutions, representatives of the regulated entities and representatives of civil society for addressing matters
at the meetings of the National System. In any case, the regulated entities have the right to ask to be invited to
these meetings.
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