The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU) is a coalition of about 200 civil society groups, trade unions, academics and public affairs firms concerned with the increasing influence exerted by corporate lobbyists on the political agenda in Europe, the resulting loss of democracy in EU decision-making and the postponement, weakening, or blockage even, of urgently needed progress on social, environmental and consumer-protection reforms.

The lobby battle around data privacy

Publication date: 
Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Big corporation are trying to water down the EU's new regulation on data privacy. On June 19 the EP will vote on the regulation. To take action, watch the video and contact your MEP!

For more, go here.

Campaign: 
Greater lobbying transparency
 

Civil society calls upon Commissioner Šefčovič for higher levels of transparency, fairness and accountability among the Commission's expert groups

Publication date: 
Monday, May 6, 2013
Author: 
Monique Goyens, (Director General, BEUC), Angelo Caserta (Regional Director, Stichting, BirdLife Europe), Pascoe Sabido (Researcher and Campaigner, Corporate Europe Observatory), Guillame Prache (Director, EuroFinuse), Monica Kosinska (Director, European Public Health Alliance), Magda Stoczkiewicz, (Director, Friends of the Earth Europe), Jos Dings (Director, Transport and Environment), Jana Mittermaier (Director, Transparency International EU Office)

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.

Download full document as pdf: 
CSO letter to Šefčovič on Expert Groups.pdf
Document types: 
open letters
Campaign: 
Balanced expert groups
 

EU losing again in lobbying game

Publication date: 
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Author: 
Craig Holman is a government affairs lobbyist at Public Citizen, a Washington-based NGO. Koen Roovers, is co-ordinator of the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU).

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..

Campaign: 
Greater lobbying transparency

ALTER-EU groups complain about breach of parliamentary Code of Conduct by European Parliament Former Members Association

Publication date: 
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Author: 
Friends of the Earth Europe and Corporate Europe Observatory

ALTER-EU groups have complained to European Parliament (EP) President Schulz about the 'EP Former Members Association (FMA)' openly seeking corporate sponsorship for activities at the premises of the European Parliament, in clear violation of the Code of Conduct for (ex-)MEPs.

Download full document as pdf: 
Complaint FMA-FoEE-CEO_26042013.pdf
Annexe-FoEE-CEO-Complaint-FMA-26042013.pdf
Campaign: 
Code of Conduct EP

Briefing on the Code of Conduct for Lobbyists

Publication date: 
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Author: 
ALTER-EU

The Code of Conduct (CoC) for lobbyists, which registrants of the Joint Transparency Register (TR) sign up to, in its current form, is weak and vaguely worded. It also needs to be revised in light of the new CoC for MEPs, which was introduced on January 1st 2012 (the MEP CoC was introduced after the TR came into being (June 2011)). 

Download full document as pdf: 
ALTER-EU_Briefing_Lobbyist-Code-of-Conduct _April2013.pdf
Document types: 
briefings & info sheets
Campaign: 
Greater lobbying transparency
 

ALTER-EU Briefing on the review process of the Transparency Register

Publication date: 
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Author: 
ALTER-EU

Almost two years after the introduction of the Transparency Register, analysis by the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU) shows that the register does not live up to its name. What needs to be done?

Download full document as pdf: 
ALTER-EU_Briefing_ Transparency-Register-Review _April2013.pdf
Document types: 
position papers
Campaign: 
Greater lobbying transparency
 

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