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The
Catalan Ombudsman presents a 15.14% budget reduction for
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The
2013 draft Budget, delivered to the Parliament by the Catalan Ombudsman,
provides, with respect to the year 2012, a reduction of 15.14%, and means
a cut of 35.67% since 2008. This 15.14% reduction results in the
non-provision of the extra pay, a reduction in staff and the
reorganization of external services. The allocations to the collegiate
bodies, the Young Advisory Board and Advisory Council for the Prevention
of Torture have been thinned by 33.33%.
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Rafael
Ribó calls for solutions to the problems of the housing states requiring
regularization |
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Tens
of thousands of people live in such housing states, approximately 300,000
plots and 50,000 hectares (five times the extension of Barcelona). Such
number of people concerned highlights the real extent of the problem. The
Catalan Ombudsman has recommended the creation of a catalogue containing
housing states with shortages and a Committee of Evaluation and Management
of such problems. He has also suggested the establishment of a Committee
of Evaluation and Management for those housing states pending of
regularization.
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The
Catalan Ombudsman requests the file of all allegations of the "No vull
pagar" ("I don't want to pay") campaign if there are no supporting
evidences |
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The
Catalan Ombudsman has suggested to the Ministry of Home Affairs and the
Catalan Traffic Service (Servei Català de Trànsit) to consider the
possibility of the prescription of all processing pending complaints and
all records whose processing has already been started and not issued
decision so far. The Catalan Ombudsman has also recommended all reports be
reviewed and filed whereas the identified person as driver does not
acknowledge committing the offence, and when the Administration does not
have clear and defining evidence (witnesses, photographs) supporting its
claim.
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Seminar
on the Right of Access to Public Information |
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Catalan Ombudsman held a seminar on the Right of Access to Public
Information, which gathered, among other experts, the actual Ombudsman,
Rafael Ribó, the Director of the Catalan Data Protection Authority, M.
Àngels Barbarà, and a representative of the Information Commissioner's
Office and Ombudsman of Ireland, Anne Lyons. Several MPs, parliamentary
group advisers and experts on the subject attended the event. |
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Request
to the Spanish Ombudsman to take action regarding Telemadrid's video on
nationalist content |
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The
Catalan Ombudsman addressed the Spanish Ombudsman to ask her to analyze
the content of the program Zoom, broadcasted by the TV channel Telemadrid,
and if necessary, to send her suggestions to the institutions in charge.
The program connected the totalitarian policies with some social choices,
ideological and public policies that have been developed in Catalonia
since the return to democracy.
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Catalan
Ombudsman takes part in the Commemoration Act of the 25th anniversary of
the first Catalan local Ombudsman in Amposta |
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Rafael
Ribó delivered a speech on the evolution experienced by the ombudsman
institution since its establishment in Sweden in 1809 until its
incorporation into the constitutions of the decade of the 70's in the case
of Portugal and Spain, and the Catalan statutes in 1979 and 2006. He also
highlighted the importance of being able to be leaders in the rights
defence. Eloi Toldà, first Ombudsman of Amposta, who has held the position
the past two terms, and the local mayor, Manuel Ferré, took part in the
event as well.
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