“Breaching the confidentiality clauses related to essential contracting conditions such as prices, costs, details, represents the risk of leaving the population without the supply of vaccines,” said Minister Yasmín Esquivel.
The authority gave details on the resolution of the two national security review resources provided for in the General Law of Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data.
In the first of them, it ruled that “the disclosure of the essential conditions of the contract can put national security at risk, by hindering or blocking actions aimed at preventing or combating pandemics in the country.”
Due to the foregoing, this information must “be classified as reserved for a period of 5 years, without this preventing the disclosure of a public version in which those aspects that were not the subject of the reservation or constitute confidential information (personal data and trade secret).
In the second, it determined that “the respective payment vouchers must be classified as confidential information for a period of 5 years, since their disclosure may endanger national security for the same reason specified in the previous paragraph.”
