Alliance for Lobbying Transparency & Ethics Regulation
The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU) is a coalition of over 160 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 Juni 2009
As the European Commission prepares to review its voluntary lobby register one year after its official launch in 2008, ALTER-EU has published a detailed report highlighting the failures of the register and putting forward concrete proposals for improvement. Only 593 out of the estimated 2600 Brussels-based lobby organisations have registered (22,8%).
- 23 April 2009
A shared transparency register and code of conduct for lobbyists proposed by the European Parliament and Commission [1] will fail to shed more light on lobbying in Brussels transparency campaigners warned today.
The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU) welcomes the principle of a joint register but believes the proposal unveiled yesterday is seriously flawed and means EU citizens will have to wait longer for credible and meaningful lobbying transparency.
- 8 August 2008On behalf of ALTER-EU, several open letters were sent to Commisison President Barroso and Vice-President Kallas and several other Commisisoners on the issue of secrecy and corporate capture of Commission Expert Groups.
- 8 Mai 2008ALTER-EU welcomes the European Parliament’s approval today of the report on “Framework for the activities of lobbyists in the EU institutions”.
- A call to, and analysis for, all MEPs to strengthen the draft report on lobbying regulation in view of the Plenary vote of May 8th.
- 25 März 2008ALTER EU calls for unbalanced advisory groups to be dissolved
- 23 April 2009ALTER-EU reaction to the joint statement of the inter-institutional working group on a common register and code of conduct for lobbyists
- 16 Dezember 2008
- 16 Oktober 2006
- 30 April 2008