Who’s driving the agenda at DG Enterprise and Industry?

Publication date: 
mercredi, June 27, 2012
Author: 
The Austrian Federal Chamber of Labour, the Austrian Trade Union Federation and ALTER-EU

ALTER-EU will present its new report providing an analysis of DG Enterprise and Industry’s expert groups on July 10. The report shows how corporate interests dominate a significant proportion of expert groups, while other interests groups, such as civil society groups, labour unions and small and medium enterprises are hardly heard.

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PDF icon Invitation_expertgroup_presslaunch.pdf
Document types: 
briefings & info sheets
Campaign: 
Balanced expert groups
 

European Parliament's briefing cites CSCG and ALTER-EU's critique of Transparency Register

Publication date: 
mercredi, May 30, 2012
Author: 
Nic Copeland

"In April 2012, in a joint publication, the EU Civil Society Contact Group (CSCG) and ALTER-EU not only cited fundamental flaws with the Transparency Register but indicated that their members would be adopting a higher standard of protection by way of recommendation."

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PDF icon LDM_BRI(2012)120318_REV1_EN.pdf
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Full lobby transparency now!

50 organsations and international experts respond to Commission spokesperson's "nutty NGO's" attack

Publication date: 
jeudi, June 14, 2012
Author: 
50 civil society groups and international freedom of information experts.

A Commission spokesperson is quoted as referring in vehement and exaggerated terms to information requests made by “nutty NGOs”, claiming that “they think it's funny to waste officials' time” by making access to information requests.

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PDF icon Letter to Sefcovic re Gravili 14 June 2012.pdf
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open letters
 

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

Publication date: 
mardi, 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.

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PDF icon 4 ALTER-EU steering committee members letter potential conflict of interest MEP Jean Luc Dehaene.pdf
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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: 
lundi, 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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PDF icon ALTER-EU Letter to Budget Committee, 8 May vote.pdf
PDF icon ALTER-EU Letter to Budget Committee 8 May FR.pdf
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open letters
Campaign: 
Balanced expert groups
 

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

Publication date: 
mercredi, 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.

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PDF icon JURI 25.4.2012 letter (1).pdf
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open letters
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Stronger ethics regulation
 

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