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The data privacy lobby battle: what's at stake and what can be done?

Publication date: 
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Author: 
ALTER-EU

Big corporation are doing everything in their power to water down the EU's new regulation on data privacy as it threatens their commercial interests. On 19th June the European Parliament will decide how strong the regulation will be. Citizens will be key in pushing MEPs to vote in public interest.

Document types: 
briefings & info sheets
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
 

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
 

Lessons from a #Lobbycracy: Transformation for Transparency and Rules for Revolving Door

Publication date: 
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Author: 
The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU), the Austrian Federal Chamber of Labour (Arbeiterkammer) and the Austrian Trade Union Federation (ÖGB)

With regulatory review processes underway, both lobbying transparency and the revolving door between public officials and private sector lobbyists in Brussels are hot topics. Come and discuss the lessons from a #lobbycracy with us!

Download full document as pdf: 
ALTER-EU_Public debate_Lessons from a Lobbycracy_11April.pdf
Document types: 
correspondence
Campaign: 
Block the revolving door
 

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