Monday, May 04, 2015
OFFICIAL GAZETTE
(Evening Version)
Article 3. For purposes of this Act, the following shall apply:
I.
Reasonable Adjustments: Amendments and adaptations necessary and appropriate not imposing
a disproportionate or undue burden, when needed in a particular case, in order to ensure that
persons with disabilities enjoy or exercise, on equal circumstances, of human rights;
II.
Areas: Instances which have or may have the information. In the case of the public sector, they will
be those which are provided for in the internal regulations, the respective charter or equivalent
instruments;
III.
Commissioner: Each of the members of the Institute sitting en banc and the Guarantor Agencies
of the States and the Federal District;
IV.
V.
VI.
Transparency Committee: Instance referred to Article 43 of this Act;
National Council: Council of the National Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of
Personal Data as referred to in Article 32 of this Act;
Open Data: Digital public data that are available online and can be used, reused and redistributed
by anyone interested and which have the following features:
a)
Accessible: Data are available for the widest range of users, for any purpose;
b)
Comprehensive: They contain the subject they describe in detail, with the corresponding
metadata;
c)
Free: Can be obtained without any consideration in exchange;
d)
Non-discriminatory: Data are available for anyone, without need of registration;
e)
Timely: They are updated periodically as they are generated;
f)
Permanent: They are kept in time; to this end, historic versions for public use will remain
available with suitable identifiers therefor.
g)
Basic: They come from the source with the highest level of disaggregation possible;
h)
Machine readable: They should be structured wholly or partly, to be processed and
interpreted by electronic devices automatically;
i)
In open formats: They shall contain the set of technical and presentation features
corresponding to the logical structure used to store data in a digital file, which technical
specifications are publicly available, do not pose a difficulty of access, and their application
and reproduction are not conditioned to the payment of any consideration;
j)
Free use: They cite the source as the only requirement to be used freely;
VII.
Document: Records, reports, studies, minutes, resolutions, official letters, correspondence,
agreements, directives, guidelines, circulars, contracts, agreements, instructions, notes,
memoranda, statistics or any other record that documents the exercise of the powers, functions and
competences of the regulated entities, Public Servants and members, regardless of their source or
date of production. Documents may be in any media, whether written, printed, audio, visual,
electronic, computer or holographic;
VIII.
Federal States: The component parts of the Federation are the States of Aguascalientes, Baja
California, Baja California Sur, Campeche, Coahuila, Colima, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Durango,
Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Nuevo Leon,
Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco,
Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Veracruz, Yucatan, Zacatecas and the Federal District;
IX.
Record: Documentary unit consisting of one or more archival documents, ordered and related to
the same subject, activity or process of the regulated entities;