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Royal Decree 662/2024 establishes the regime for the installation of floating photovoltaic plants in reservoirs under the management of the General State Administration. The aim is to promote renewable energies and adapt existing regulations to regulate these installations. Technical and legal requirements are established to obtain concessions and monitoring programs will be implemented to assess possible environmental impacts. The regulations affect the hydrographic basins under state jurisdiction and define floating photovoltaic plants as projects for the production of electric energy in water. [Extracted from the article]

In this article we analyze the organization of information in Spain's Portal of the Transparency, which includes information that is required by law. We analyze both the organization of information and people who appear in the Portal. The analysis is then compared with the Law of transparency, access to public information, and good governance. The results show a high percentage of subjects that are not reporting the information as required by law. Contrarily, some sections, like economics, include an excess of information that makes their access complex. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cultural diplomacy is usually defined as an artistic and intellectual exchanges policy developed within Nation-States. During the last three decades we saw the proliferation of diverse external cultural policies structures of subnational governments all around the world. This can be explained due the restructuration of postfordist State, the appearance of new actors and the development of multiple schemes of multilevel governance. However, the rupture of central governments monopoly in the area supposes a challenge for the development of new representation systems of States abroad. In Spain case, the significant decentralization of public administration since democratic transition permitted the emergence of cultural paradiplomacies of autonomic governments. This work analyses this process by studying the cases of General Administration of State and Catalan Autonomic Community and seek to explain how the abroad cultural action of the State of Autonomies is configured. In this regard, this article shows the inexistence of a federal system of cultural diplomacy. By contrast, it demonstrates the presence of an intergovernmental competition in which processes of nation building are opposed and where legitimacy and monopoly of exterior cultural projection are on debate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Spanish State Administration incorporates a civil service Civil Engineer Corps to administer investments in public works from the planning stage to operation, including design and construction. A large proportion of state investments are developed through organizations that do not contain civil servants among their numbers and these investments are not then controlled by those civil-service engineers expressly selected for this task on the basis of merit and capacity. There is similarly no guarantee that the remainder of the investments are managed by these civil service Engineer Corps as positions within this body are not exclusively reserved for engineers and may be occupied by civil servants from other Corps and posts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After the post-revolutionary period, over the past decades, the trends of administrative reform in Portugal followed what was happening in the rest of Europe. Regardless of the idiosyncrasies and inconsistencies observed over the last twenty years, the reform process was marked by the introduction of privatization, corporatization of administrative organization, attempts to reduce bureaucracy and transparency in the relationship between government and citizens, convergence of labor regimes and restructuration of the the Central Government Administration. From 2011, following the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Portuguese government and the troika, reform was restricted mainly to the implementation of individual measures that mainly targeted cost reduction of public expenditure. By now, there are no scientific theoretical analytical results for the subject matter. For this reason, the paper presents a descriptive and exploratory approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Governments produce, disseminate, preserve and reuse information in order to carry out the public services entrusted to them. They make use of the so-called official publications to disseminate information about public policies. We use the term publications in the sense that this word has attained in the digital era, that is, any digital resource online, including web pages from departments. The Spanish Administration provides two key elements of information about its publishing activity: the Catalogue of Publications of the General Administration of the State and the Guide to official publishers. The organizational developments for preserving and reuse the valuable and extensive information of the Spanish Public Sector are still pending, but the current regulatory gaps are in the process of being resolved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]