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Help us getting our message across! Take part in Commission's consultation on the Transparency Register

Publication date: 
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Author: 
ALTER-EU

Although the online questionnaire reads more like a user's satisfaction survey, than a consultation about the register's effectiveness in bringing transparency, there is one good opportunity to give feedback in this respect. Help ALTER-EU to get real transparency!

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PDF icon ALTER-EU's consultation response.pdf
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briefings & info sheets
Campaign: 
Full lobby transparency now!
 

Who’s driving the agenda at DG Enterprise and Industry?

Publication date: 
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Author: 
The Austrian Federal Chamber of Labour, the Austrian Trade Union Federation and ALTER-EU

ALTER-EU will present its new report providing an analysis of DG Enterprise and Industry’s expert groups on July 10. The report shows how corporate interests dominate a significant proportion of expert groups, while other interests groups, such as civil society groups, labour unions and small and medium enterprises are hardly heard.

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PDF icon Invitation_expertgroup_presslaunch.pdf
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briefings & info sheets
Campaign: 
Balanced expert groups
 

Newsletter - 8 - New ALTER-EU member Comhlámh, 'Revolving Door' campaign update, and more

Publication date: 
Friday, June 1, 2012
Author: 

Our website got a face lift (see the result here), we had several letter actions (see the ALTER-EU news below) and together with the Civil Society Contact Group we published the new 'Transparency Register' guidelines, with which organisations can make a truly transparent registration in the European Parliament and European Commission's register.

Document types: 
briefings & info sheets
Campaign: 
Stronger ethics regulation
 

How to make a transparent registration in the Joint European Commission & Parliament “Transparency Register”

Publication date: 
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Author: 
ALTER-EU and the EU Civil Society Contact Group

The EU Civil Society Contact Group and ALTER-EU criticise the “Transparency Register” as fundamentally flawed because it is not mandatory, it does not require organisations to register all individual lobbyists who work for them, and because the required financial reporting on lobbying expenditure is inconsistent and not comparable.

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PDF icon 2012_ALTER-EU_CSCG_guidelines_Transparency_Register.pdf
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briefings & info sheets
Campaign: 
Full lobby transparency now!
 

Shedding light on expert groups

Publication date: 
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Author: 
Yiorgos Vassalos and Fabian Spoerer

ALTER-EU took part in a ground-breaking hearing in the European Parliament - initiated by Dennis de Jong MEP (GUE/NGL), co-organised by the EPP, S&D, ALDE and Greens - looking at problems with the European Commission's expert groups. 

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PDF icon egsephearing.pdf
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briefings & info sheets
Campaign: 
Balanced expert groups
 

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