{"id":4008,"date":"2008-09-01T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-01-27T13:23:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T13:23:00","slug":"supervisando-al-gobierno","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/amchamchile.cl\/en\/noticia\/supervisando-al-gobierno\/","title":{"rendered":"<!--:es-->Supervisando al Gobierno<!--:--><!--:en-->Supervising the Government<!--:-->"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:es--><P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Si los chilenos consideran a alguna de sus instituciones dignas de Dickens, esa tiene que ser la Contralor\u00eda General de la Rep\u00fablica. En la imaginaci\u00f3n popular, es un lugar oscuro y polvoriento, cuyo personal a\u00f1oso se hunde en monta\u00f1as de papeles que s\u00f3lo ellos entienden.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Pero su imagen comenz\u00f3 a cambiar a partir de abril del 2007 cuando Ramiro Mendoza, abogado del sector privado, fue designado contralor general de la Rep\u00fablica. Desde entonces, ha estado regularmente en los titulares por investigaciones implacables sobre temas tales como la incapacidad del Ministerio de Educaci\u00f3n en Santiago para mantener un control adecuado de su dinero. O la transparencia con las que se han adjudicado los contratos de ciertas municipalidades de la ciudad (o la falta de ella).<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">A cargo de garantizar que el Gobierno no traspase los l\u00edmites de la ley, el trabajo de la Contralor\u00eda General tiene que ver con el derecho administrativo. Y, para los que miran desde afuera, eso puede ser un tema muy poco atractivo, admiti\u00f3 Mendoza en un desayuno de la <STRONG>AmCham<\/STRONG> realizado el 13 de agosto.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Sin embargo, tambi\u00e9n es muy importante para las empresas. \u201cEl imperio de la ley, las instituciones que funcionan adecuadamente, la transparencia y la probidad del sector p\u00fablico contribuyen a que haya m\u00e1s y mejores operaciones en el sector privado\u201d, destac\u00f3. Y eso se aplica, a\u00f1adi\u00f3, no s\u00f3lo a los acuerdos comerciales del sector privado con el Estado, sino que tambi\u00e9n a un sinf\u00edn de temas, como el correcto establecimiento de tarifas reguladas de servicios p\u00fablicos, que afectan sus costos.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">La Contralor\u00eda General tiene que dar la aprobaci\u00f3n previa a las decisiones del sector p\u00fablico, determinando si cumplen o no con la ley, y auditar a los servicios p\u00fablicos en la correcta implementaci\u00f3n de esas decisiones. \u201cDesde el 2002, hemos tenido la facultad de auditar\u2026 lo que queramos y en la forma en que queramos\u201d, dijo Mendoza en el desayuno.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Lo \u00fanico que no est\u00e1 permitido es evaluar el m\u00e9rito, la conveniencia o lo oportuno de una decisi\u00f3n del Gobierno. \u201cEsa es una restricci\u00f3n natural, porque -de lo contrario- estar\u00edamos cogestionando a la administraci\u00f3n p\u00fablica\u201d, destac\u00f3 Mendoza.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">El proceso de autorizaci\u00f3n previa -ya sea para una nueva concesi\u00f3n de obras p\u00fablicas o un cambio en las tarifas de los servicios p\u00fablicos- puede ser un \u201ccuello de botella espectacular\u201d, reconoce Mendoza. \u201cAlgunas veces, puede demorar demasiado, pero tambi\u00e9n es una garant\u00eda del imperio de la ley\u201d.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">No obstante, es el rol auditor de la Contralor\u00eda lo que atrae la mayor atenci\u00f3n y es, seg\u00fan Mendoza, la parte m\u00e1s compleja de su labor. Para una instituci\u00f3n con un personal de 1.600 y un presupuesto anual de apenas US$63 millones, es mucho trabajo, porque la administraci\u00f3n del Estado es \u201cun monstruo enorme\u201d.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Ese problema se ve agravado, a\u00f1adi\u00f3, por el hecho de que, con sus investigaciones de alto nivel, la Contralor\u00eda General se ha convertido en \u201cla novedad del a\u00f1o\u201d. Eso ha alentado a la gente a acerc\u00e1rsele con todo tipo de temas, muchos de los cuales no tiene la facultad para resolver.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Con el fin de hacer su trabajo m\u00e1s manejable, la Contralor\u00eda usa una matriz de riesgo para establecer sus prioridades. Y ah\u00ed hizo recientemente un importante cambio -\u201cel eje de nuestra supervisi\u00f3n hoy en d\u00eda est\u00e1 en \u00e1reas en las que los recursos p\u00fablicos se transfieren al sector privado\u201d, coment\u00f3 Mendoza en el desayuno de la AmCham.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Pero, en lugar de ejercer \u00fanicamente un rol coercitivo, la Contralor\u00eda tambi\u00e9n busca contribuir a la calidad de la administraci\u00f3n del Estado a trav\u00e9s de la educaci\u00f3n y la asesor\u00eda. \u201cLa gran deficiencia que tenemos en Chile es la educaci\u00f3n\u2026 hay una falta de conocimiento y de buenas pr\u00e1cticas en las relaciones al interior de la administraci\u00f3n p\u00fablica; eso es algo que estamos tratando de mejorar\u201d, inform\u00f3 Mendoza.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Tambi\u00e9n est\u00e1 tratando de reducir los tiempos en que emite sus fallos. Una investigaci\u00f3n que concluye a\u00f1os despu\u00e9s de la situaci\u00f3n que se revisa dif\u00edcilmente puede considerarse efectiva, destac\u00f3 Mendoza. Pero hay otro problema, a\u00f1adi\u00f3.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Pero para quienes no son abogados, leer uno de los fallos diligentemente redactados de la Contralor\u00eda es \u201cun desaf\u00edo intelectual\u201d y es necesario que estos sean m\u00e1s cortos y concisos de manera de facilitar el acceso del p\u00fablico a la informaci\u00f3n que contienen.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Practicando lo que predica, la Contralor\u00eda tambi\u00e9n est\u00e1 trabajando para aumentar su propia transparencia. En una medida clave, todas sus resoluciones ahora se publican en su sitio web junto con la agenda de reuniones del contralor.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">De hecho, esa quiz\u00e1s se identifique como la medida m\u00e1s importante del contralor general Mendoza. Despu\u00e9s de todo, la luz del sol -o, en este caso, el acceso p\u00fablico a la informaci\u00f3n- es una de las formas m\u00e1s efectivas para limpiar a fondo las esquinas polvorientas.<\/P><!--:--><!--:en--><br \/>\n<!--break--><br \/>\nIf Chileans consider any of their institutions to be Dickensian, then it is the Comptroller General\u2019s Office. In popular imagination, it is a dark and dusty place whose aged staff sag under mountains of paperwork only they understand.  <\/p>\n<p>But its image has started to change since April 2007 when Ramiro Mendoza, a private-sector lawyer, was appointed as the country\u2019s new Comptroller General. Since then, it has regularly been in the headlines for hard-hitting investigations into issues such as the failure of the Education Ministry\u2019s office in Santiago to keep proper tabs on its money. Or the transparency &#8211; or otherwise &#8211; with which contracts have been awarded by some of the city\u2019s municipal governments. <\/p>\n<p>Charged with ensuring that the government does not stray beyond the bounds of the law, the work of the Comptroller General\u2019s Office has to do with administrative law. And, for outsiders, that can be a very unappetizing subject, admitted Mendoza at an AmCham breakfast on August 13. <\/p>\n<p>But it is also very important for business. \u201cThe rule of law, institutions that work properly, transparency and public-sector probity make for more and better private-sector business,\u201d he pointed out. And that applies, he added, not only to the private sector\u2019s business dealings with the state but also to a multitude of matters, like the proper setting of regulated utility tariffs, that affect their costs. <\/p>\n<p>The Comptroller General\u2019s Office has to give prior approval for public-sector decisions, determining whether or not they comply with the law, and audit public services in the correct implementation of those decisions. \u201cSince 2002, we have had the power to audit\u2026 whatever we want and however we want,\u201d Mendoza told the breakfast. <\/p>\n<p>The only thing it isn\u2019t allowed to do is evaluate the merit, timing or convenience of a government decision. \u201cThat\u2019s a natural restriction because, otherwise, we\u2019d be co-managing the public administration,\u201d noted Mendoza.  <\/p>\n<p>The process of prior authorization &#8211; whether for a new public works concession contract or a change in utility tariffs &#8211; can be a \u201cspectacular bottleneck\u201d, recognized Mendoza. \u201cSometimes, it can take too long but it is also a guarantee of the rule of law.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>But it is the Office\u2019s auditing role that attracts most attention and is, according to Mendoza, the most complex part of its work. For an institution with a staff of 1,600 and an annual budget of just US$63 million, it is a lot of work because the state administration is \u201can enormous monster\u201d.  <\/p>\n<p>That problem has been aggravated, he added, by the fact that, with its high-profile investigations, the Comptroller General\u2019s Office has become \u201cthe novelty of the year\u201d. That has encouraged people to approach it on all sorts of issues, many of which aren\u2019t in its power to resolve.  <\/p>\n<p>In order to make its work more manageable, the Office uses a matrix of risk to establish its priorities. And there it has recently made an important shift &#8211; \u201cthe axis of our supervision today is on areas in which public resources are transferred to the private sector,\u201d Mendoza told the AmCham breakfast. <\/p>\n<p>But, rather than exercising a merely coercive role, the Office also seeks to contribute to the quality of state administration through education and advice. \u201cThe great deficiency we have in Chile is education\u2026 there is a lack of knowledge and good practices in relations within the public administration; that\u2019s something we\u2019re trying to improve,\u201d reported Mendoza. <\/p>\n<p>It is also seeking to increase the speed with which it issues its rulings. An investigation that concludes years after the event can hardly be considered effective, noted Mendoza. <\/p>\n<p>But there is another problem, he added. For people who are not lawyers, reading one of the Office\u2019s closely-written rulings is \u201can intellectual feat\u201d and they need to be shorter and more concise so as to facilitate public access to the information they contain. <\/p>\n<p>Practicing what it preaches, the Comptroller General\u2019s Office is also working to increase its own transparency. In one key measure, all its rulings are now posted on its website, along with the Comptroller General\u2019s agenda of meetings.   <\/p>\n<p>That is, indeed, identified as perhaps the single most important measure taken by Comptroller General Mendoza. Sunlight &#8211; or, in this case, public access to information &#8211; is, after all, one of the most effective ways to spring-clean dusty corners.<!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><!--:es--><P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Si los chilenos consideran a alguna de sus instituciones dignas de Dickens, esa tiene que ser la Contralor\u00eda General de la Rep\u00fablica. En la imaginaci\u00f3n popular, es un lugar oscuro y polvoriento, cuyo personal a\u00f1oso se hunde en monta\u00f1as de papeles que s\u00f3lo ellos entienden.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Pero su imagen comenz\u00f3 a cambiar a partir de abril del 2007 cuando Ramiro Mendoza, abogado del sector privado, fue designado contralor general de la Rep\u00fablica.<!--:--><!--:en-->If Chileans consider any of their institutions to be Dickensian, then it is the Comptroller General\u2019s Office. 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