regards their activities under Administrative Law, as well as other constitutional and statutory bodies. Furthermore, this Act shall be applied to certain entities which, given their particular public relevance or their nature as recipients of public funds, shall be made to strengthen the transparency of their activity. The Act broadens and strengthens active publicity obligations in different spheres. As regards institutional, organizational and planning information, the Act requires the parties encompassed in its scope of application to publish information about the functions they perform, the regulations applicable to them and their organizational structure, as well as their instruments for planning and assessing compliance. As regards information of legal relevance directly affecting relations between the Administration and citizens, the Act contains an extensive list of documents which, by being made publicly available, will create greater legal certainty. Likewise, as regards information of economic, budgetary and statistical relevance, an extensive catalogue is set forth that should be accessible and comprehensible for citizens, because it is an excellent instrument for monitoring the management and use of public resources. Lastly, the obligation is established to publish all the information which is most often applied for, so that transparency obligations may be harmonized with the citizens’ interests. To channel the publication of such a vast amount of information and facilitate compliance with these active publicity obligations—and bearing in mind that it is not possible to speak of transparency, on the one hand, but not implement the appropriate means to facilitate access to the information published, on the other—the Act envisages the creation and development of a Transparency Portal. Today, new technologies enable us to develop extraordinarily useful instruments to comply with the provisions of the Act, the use of which shall enable citizens to obtain all the information available through a single point of access. The Act also regulates the right to access public information which, nevertheless, has already been implemented in other provisions of our legal system. Indeed, stemming from the provision contained in Article 105.b) of our Constitution, Act 30/1992 on the Legal System of the Public Administrations and Common Administrative Procedure implements in its Article 37 citizens’ right to access records and documents held in administrative archives. But this regulation has a series of shortcomings which have been frequently evidenced, due to the fact that the object of the right to access is not clear, because it is limited to documents contained in administrative procedures that have already concluded, and because its exercise is extraordinarily limited in practice. Likewise, but with a sector-based scope and resulting from EU Directives, other regulations envisage access to public information. This is the case of Act 27/2006, of 18 July, which regulates the rights to access information, of public participation, and to access justice in the sphere of the environment, and of Act 37/2007, of 16 November, on the reuse of public sector information, which regulates the private use of documents held by the Administrations and other public sector bodies. In addition, Act 11/2007, of 22 June, on citizens’ electronic access to public services, while recognizing citizens’ right to communicate with the Administration through electronic means, opens a path on which further progress is made with this Act: the implementation of a culture of transparency which demands modernizing the Administration, 5