EU Treaties provide legal base for mandatory lobby register

Publication date: 
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Author: 
ALTER-EU (The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation in the EU), AK EUROPA (Arbeiterkammer), and ÖGB Europabüro

Over the next months, the European Commission and Parliament will review their voluntary joint Transparency Register that entered into force June 2011. The register continues to have a large number of shortcomings, due to its voluntary nature. According to Professor Markus Krajewski the new EU Treaties provide a legal base for a mandatory lobby register.

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reports & studies
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Legal study into the legal framework for a mandatory EU lobby register and regulations

Publication date: 
Monday, June 17, 2013
Author: 
Markus Krajewski, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg

Transferring the current voluntary regime into binding rules has been a demand of the European Parliament since a number of years. [..] The [attached] study assesses if there is a legal basis in current EU primary law to establish a mandatory lobby register.

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Mandatory or voluntary? Time for a lobby register that really works!

Publication date: 
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Mandatory or voluntary
Start date: 
Mon, 2013-06-17 18:30
Location: 
Brussels, European Parliament (for EP-internal technical reasons, the room number will be confirmed to you at a later stage)

Ever since its inception, transparency groups have argued that the voluntary nature of the joint Transparency Register of the European Commission and the European Parliament makes that major lobby groups are not yet signed up to or still missing from the register, and that the information provided is not always correct and sometimes even incorrect.

AK EUROPA, the Brussels office of the Austrian Federal Chamber of Labour, the ÖGB Europabüro, the Brussels office of the Austrian Trade Union Federation, and ALTER-EU, the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation, would like to invite you to a panel discussion about the joint Transparency Register of the European Commission and the European Parliament.

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EU losing again in lobbying game

Publication date: 
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Author: 
Craig Holman is a government affairs lobbyist at Public Citizen, a Washington-based NGO. Koen Roovers, is co-ordinator of the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU).

After an intense battle with lobbyists, the European Commission introduced a voluntary register in 2008. Strike one.In 2011 this register merged with the European Parliament's register into the joint Transparency Register, still voluntary. Strike two.At the moment this register is being reviewed..

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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.

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