2007 Assessment

This peer-reviewed country report includes:

Integrity Indicators Scorecard: Scores, scoring criteria, commentary, references, and peer review perspectives for more than 300 Integrity Indicators.

Reporter's Notebook: An on-the-ground look at corruption and integrity from a leading local journalist.

Corruption Timeline: Ten years of political context to today's corruption and integrity issues.

Country Facts: Statistical context for each country.

Spain scores well in many categories, indicating a generally good governance and anti-corruption framework, with some important exceptions. Spain's performance is weak in legislative and judicial accountability. For instance, the country does not have any regulation that requires members of the national judiciary to file asset disclosure forms. Whistleblower protections are poor: Spain lacks an internal mechanism (i.e. phone hotline, e-mail address, local office) through which civil servants and private sector employees can report corruption. Civil service regulation is very weak.