La amenazada independencia de la autoridad de responsabilidad fiscal

Abstract

The Spanish Act 6/2013 created the Fiscal Responsibility Independent Agency (AIReF) to implement European law which obliges member States to create Fiscal Responsibility Independent Authorities for supervising compliance of European rules for budgetary stability and financial sustainability. This independent authority complies, in general, with the European and international standards of independence. But the own AIReF has criticized Spanish government for obstructing access to necessary information for complying with its mandate. In the absence of sufficient reactive powers, which the legislator could have provided for AIReF, European authorities could start a sanction procedure against Spain for breaching European law that obliges independence of the fiscal responsibility national authorities.