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AFCO rubber-stamps Buzek draft, gift provision weakened

Publication date: 
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Author: 
Gaspard Sebag
Media title: 
Europolitics
Teaser: 

Making minor changes, the members of the European Parliament's Committee on Constitutional Affairs (AFCO) rubber-stamped [..] the draft code of conduct for MEPs [...]. CEO (member of ALTER-EU) [...] points out the weakening of the provision concerning gifts and the importance of proper implementation.

Link to original article: 
http://www.europolitics.info/institutions/afco-rubber-stamps-buzek-draft-gift-provision-weakened-art318606-39.html
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MEPs endorse new code of conduct

Publication date: 
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Author: 
Martha Moss
Media title: 
TheParliament
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Parliament's constitutional affairs committee has backed plans to create a new code of conduct for MEPs.

Link to original article: 
http://www.theparliament.com/latest-news/article/newsarticle/meps-endorse-new-code-of-conduct/
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ALTER-EU welcomes Parliament vote to accept MEP Code of Conduct but regrets weakening of rules around gifts

Publication date: 
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Press release issued by: 
The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU)

Transparency campaigners today welcomed the vote of the European Parliament constitutional affairs committee (AFCO) on the proposed Code of Conduct for MEPs [1], but warned that an important loophole on the definition of gifts risks undermining the core of the proposals.

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Rules or no rules, that's the question!

Publication date: 
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Author: 
Koen Roovers
Media title: 
New Europe
Teaser: 

The new code of conduct for Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), drafted earlier this year, seems to be turning into a battle on ethics now that more MEPs are looking at what the code might mean for them. The draft is currently being discussed in the Constitutional Affairs committee (AFCO).

Link to original article: 
http://www.neurope.eu/article/rules-or-no-rules-question
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Europe's Challenge: Democratic Accountability

Publication date: 
Monday, June 13, 2011

Both Marc Gruber, steering committee member of ALTER-EU, and Paul de Clerck, ALTER-EU campaigner, in a video on lobbying transparency and conflicts of interest in the EU institutions: http://youtu.be/3wbZlD7IL4g

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