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Legal study into the legal framework for a mandatory EU lobby register and regulations
Transferring the current voluntary regime into binding rules has been a demand of the European Parliament since a number of years. [..] The [attached] study assesses if there is a legal basis in current EU primary law to establish a mandatory lobby register.
2013/06/17
BLOG: The Transparency Register's code of conduct for lobbyists - more than a tick-box exercise?
Undue pressure and inappropriate behaviour: what is it and how can the current EU lobby register review put an end to it?
2013/06/05
Mandatory or voluntary? Time for a lobby register that really works!
AK EUROPA, the Brussels office of the Austrian Federal Chamber of Labour, the ÖGB Europabüro, the Brussels office of the Austrian Trade Union Federation, and ALTER-EU, the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation, would like to invite you to a panel discussion about the joint Transparency Register of the European Commission and the European Parliament.
Ever since its inception, transparency groups have argued that the voluntary nature of the joint Transparency Register of the European Commission and the European Parliament makes that major lobby groups are not yet signed up to or still missing from the register, and that the information provided is not always correct and sometimes even incorrect.
2013/06/04
Civil society calls upon Commissioner Šefčovič for higher levels of transparency, fairness and accountability among the Commission's expert groups
Since the launching of the informal dialogue between the Commission and the Parliament in September, many civil society groups have felt excluded from the process undertaken by the Commission to reform its expert groups. They therefore call on Commissioner Šefčovič for higher levels of transparency, fairness and accountability.
2013/05/06
EU losing again in lobbying game
After an intense battle with lobbyists, the European Commission introduced a voluntary register in 2008. Strike one.In 2011 this register merged with the European Parliament's register into the joint Transparency Register, still voluntary. Strike two.At the moment this register is being reviewed..
2013/03/21

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