On 20 March 2025, the decree enacting the General Law of Transparency and Access to Public Information, the General Law for the Protection of Personal Data in Possession of Obligated Entities, the Federal Law for the Protection of Personal Data in Possession of Private Parties, and the amendment to Article 37, Section XV, of the Organic Law of the Federal Public Administration was published in the Official Gazette of the Federation.

The parliamentary process of the Draft Law on Transparency and Integrity of Lobbying Activities within the General State Administration and its institutional public sector has already begun. The initiative aims to transform the opaque perception of interest groups at the state level by imposing greater transparency obligations and recognizing them as legitimate, responsible, and open actors in influencing policy design and public decision-making. However, it remains to be seen whether the current text will undergo significant modifications during the parliamentary process.

On 17 October 2024, president Claudia Sheinbaum and the head of the Secretary of Public Administration announced a new model for preventing and combating corruption with the transformation of the Secretary of Public Administration into the Secretary of Anti-Corruption and Good Government. This new entity will focus on the prevention of corruption by strengthening public management through modernization, transparency and collaboration with different sectors.
This new model proposes moving from a corrective approach to a preventive one, combating corruption from the root.

On April 27, 2015, Transparency International UK (“TIUK”) released the Defense Companies Anti-Corruption Index 2015 (the “Index”). The Index, which was first released in October 2012 and now updated for the first time since then, assesses the transparency and quality of the ethics and anti-corruption compliance programs of 163 defense…