The Joint Information Reassessment Commission (CMRI) was created by the Access to Information Law (LAI) as the last instance of appeal within the federal government and also as the main body responsible for monitoring and reviewing all information classified as secret and top secret by federal public administration bodies.

This study looks at the basis of the CMRI and the data published by ministerial bodies on their portals that record the classification of documents and information as secret or top secret. The collegiate body should have a complete list of classified information, but its database contains 1,971 fewer records than the total accounted for in the secrecy lists published by ministerial bodies. In the current scenario, the CMRI is unable to fulfill its attributions established by the LAI and its regulations.

• The CMRI uses an outdated technological system to receive and monitor agency confidentiality, and has no means of verifying that it is receiving all the records;
• The collegiate body also fails to comply with its duty to re-analyze every four years all information classified as secret and top secret in order to decide whether the secrecy should be maintained, extended, reduced or extinguished;
• Federal government bodies fail to comply with the legal and infra-legal rules for the disclosure of classified and declassified information;
• TB recommends that CMRI update and standardize its system for monitoring classified information and urgently adopt means of fulfilling its duty to review all classified information every four years.