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.

4 ALTER-EU groups send letter to European Parliament President Martin Schulz about MEP Jean-Luc Dehaene's undeclared stock options

Publication date: 
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Author: 
Friends of the Earth Europe, Corporate Europe Observatory, LobbyControl, SpinWatch

Several Belgian media reported that MEP Dehaene is allowed to exert stock options granted by AB InBev, potentially amounting to around 3 million Euro. We are surprised to notice that those stock options are nowhere reported in Mr Dehaene’s current declaration of interest, despite the very clear obligations regarding declaration of outside interests.

Download full document as pdf: 
4 ALTER-EU steering committee members letter potential conflict of interest MEP Jean Luc Dehaene.pdf
Campaign: 
Code of Conduct EP

Letter to European Parliament's Budget Committee: MEPs should reject lifting reserve on expert groups budget (English and French version attached)

Publication date: 
Monday, May 7, 2012
Author: 
Yiorgos Vassalos

On 8 May, the Budget Committee will vote on the European Commission's request to lift the reserve of two million Euros for meetings for expert groups. (Transfer of Appropriations No DEC 05/2012) The European Commission is requesting that this reserve is lifted without any of the conditions set by the European Parliament being fulfilled [...].

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ALTER-EU Letter to Budget Committee, 8 May vote.pdf
ALTER-EU Letter to Budget Committee 8 May FR.pdf
Document types: 
open letters
Campaign: 
Balanced expert groups
 

Letter to European Parliament's Legal Affairs committee ahead of 'Staff Regulations' vote

Publication date: 
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Author: 
Vicky Cann

The Staff Regulations contain the ethics rules which govern 55,000 or more officials who work across the EU institutions. ALTER-EU considers that the current process to reform the Staff Regulations provides an opportunity to improve these ethics rules, especially those that relate to conflicts of interest during and after EU staff work for the EU.

Download full document as pdf: 
JURI 25.4.2012 letter (1).pdf
Document types: 
open letters
Campaign: 
Block the revolving door
 

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.

Download full document as pdf: 
2012_ALTER-EU_CSCG_guidelines_Transparency_Register.pdf
Document types: 
briefings & info sheets
Campaign: 
Greater lobbying transparency
 

One year on from MEP scandal: Parliament must be strict on implementation of ethics code to avoid new scandals

Publication date: 
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Press release issued by: 
The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU)

One year after the ‘cash-for-amendments’ scandal, ALTER-EU warns that the new ethical code introduced does not include all the safeguards necessary to prevent another ‘lobbygate’.

Campaign: 
Code of Conduct EP
 

Revolving Doors: ALTER-EU letter about Budgetary Control committee's vote on Staff Regulations

Publication date: 
Friday, March 16, 2012
Author: 
Vicky Cann

The Staff Regulations contain the ethics rules which govern 55,000 or more officials who work across the EU institutions. ALTER-EU considers that the current process to reform the Staff Regulations provides an opportunity to improve these ethics rules, especially those that relate to conflicts of interest during and after EU staff work for the EU.

Document types: 
open letters
Campaign: 
Block the revolving door
 

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