ALTER-EU The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation

The following recommendations and benchmarks have been developed by the Alliance for Lobbying Trans-parency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU) to support the implementation of a meaningful EU lobbyingtransparency register. This paper focuses on the content and design of the register itself. Beyond that, wewould like to stress the need for an independent monitoring of the register. In the medium term we believethat only a mandatory register with clear sanctions will provide adequate transparency. Please see also our Recommendations on lobbying transparency and ethics in the European Union of January 2006.