ALTER-EU seeks intern to work on new campaign

The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU) is looking for an intern to join our small team and help us to launch and coordinate a new campaign “Stand up against excessive lobbying from banks and big business”, to run before and during the EU parliamentary elections in May 2014. ALTER-EU is a coalition of more than 200 civil society groups concerned with the increasing influence exerted by corporate lobbyists on the political agenda in Europe and the resulting loss of democracy in EU decision-making.

 

ALTER-EU recommendations for Transparency Register review: Code of Conduct for lobbyists and Complaints mechanism

Publication date: 
Monday, September 23, 2013

As members of the European Parliament continue their work on the review of the Transparency Register, ALTER-EU has sent detailed recommendations from our June 2013 report “Rescue the Register! How to make EU lobby transparency credible and reliable“, including about the lobbyists' code of conduct and the complaints mechanism.

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PDF icon briefing 23.9.13.pdf
Document types: 
position papers
Campaign: 
Full lobby transparency now!
 

ALTER-EU recommendations for Transparency Register review: Lobby disclosure requirements

Publication date: 
Monday, August 26, 2013
Author: 
ALTER-EU

As members of the European Parliament have started their work on the review of the Transparency Register, ALTER-EU has sent detailed recommendations from our June 2013 report “Rescue the Register! How to make EU lobby transparency credible and reliable“, including on the question which data lobbyists should provide.

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PDF icon recommendations disclosure requirements.pdf
Document types: 
position papers
Campaign: 
Full lobby transparency now!
 

Ombudsman recommends Commission does more to tackle dominance of business interests within its expert groups

Publication date: 
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Author: 
ALTER-EU

The European Ombudsman today produced recommendations for the European Commission on how to tackle the dominance of business interests within its expert groups, following a three year investigation.

 
Document types: 
statements
Campaign: 
Balanced expert groups
 

Rescue the Register! How to make EU lobby transparency credible and reliable

Publication date: 
Thursday, June 20, 2013

The European Union is reviewing its Transparency Register, and considering how best to secure lobbying transparency at EU level. All the signs emerging from the Commission are that they would prefer to retain their voluntary and 'light touch' approach to lobbying regulation. This reports proofs why this is unsustainable.

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PDF icon Rescue_the_Register_report_25June2013.pdf
Document types: 
reports & studies
Campaign: 
Full lobby transparency now!
 

New report shows urgent need to rescue EU's ineffective lobby register

Publication date: 
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Press release issued by: 
The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU)

A few days before the second birth day of the European Commission and European Parliament's joint lobby register, our new report shows that the voluntary register is still failing to get a sufficient share of lobbyists to register. Moreover, the register remains packed with unreliable and incomplete data.

Campaign: 
Full lobby transparency now!
 

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