10 officers; to help prevent undue acts and minimize corruption risks in the acts of the administration and public officers; to foster transparency in administrative acts and strengthen the notion of access to information as a statutory right of all citizens. The training program will be carried out in two ways: a) by means of e-learning courses, aimed at 150,000 workers of the Central State Administration; and by specific training courses for 4,000 public officers holding probity and transparency key positions in every service. g) Planes Anuales de Capacitación (Annual Training Plans): the Ministry/Secretary of the Presidency is drafting instructions whereby all the entities and services of the State Administration will be advised that the Training Bipartite Committees should include in their respective annual plans specific training activities concerning probity and transparency taking the Law into account. h) The State submitted the Manual de Transparencia y Probidad de la Administración del Estado (State Administration Transparency and Probity Manual) – published in January 2008 to the Court. This manual is particularly targeted to all persons rendering services to the State Administration of Chile including, but not limited to, Ministries, Undersecretaries, Town Halls, Governor’s Offices and other public entities and services created within the domains of the public administration. The manual enshrines the right of access to information and provides training troubleshooting and tools to solve questions like the way in which the citizens may request information from a public entity; explains the principles on which the right of access to information is based; summarizes the functions of the Council for Transparency; outlines the procedure to be followed by the required entity and the system of remedies. Finally, the State submitted the book entitled Buenas Prácticas en Probidad, Transparencia y Acceso a la Información en la Administración del Estado, published in July 2007, which describes various experiences, selected by external and independent jury, of State organs in order to spread the ideas and initiatives adopted by the Public Administration to increase transparency, probity and good practice. 16. The State concludes that the training activities carried out so far are proof that the Judgment of the Court is being effectively complied with and asserts that further efforts are intended to be implemented since every entity should be trained in a customary fashion taking into account the tasks assigned in relation to the right of access to information. Therefore, it pointed out that massive training programs disregarding the technicalities of each position are not practicable; therefore, not all agents have been trained yet. The training programs for officers of the Judiciary to be implemented are meant to suit these needs and the Judicial Academy has been contacted for continuing-education courses in the subject area. 17. That the representative states that the training and coaching process is highly oriented towards complying with the Judgment of the Court and follows the transparency policies arising from International treaties signed by Chile. He makes an “appeal for the reinforcement of the course contents regarding the fundamental rights comprising the

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