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The Commission’s advisory groups provide expert advice on specific issues, which is often used to shape new policies or even to form the backbone of new legislation. The Commission’s reliance on advice from big business within these groups has been criticised, with MEPs urging action to ensure more balance.

Commission keeps big business in the driving seat: deadline for reform ignored

Publication date: 
Monday, February 4, 2013

The European Commission promised MEPs in September 2012 that it would rebalance its advisory 'expert groups', putting an end to the dominance of big business interests. DG Enterprise even set a date: 31 January 2013. However, ALTER-EU found out the Commission has missed its deadline, and in some cases groups have become even more industry dominated.

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STATE OF PLAY CONCERNING THE CONDITIONS SET BY T THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT TO LIFT THE RESERVE IN THE 2012 BUDGET WITH REGARD TO GROUPS OF EXPERTS + note distributed at informal dialogue

STATE OF PLAY CONCERNING EXPERT GROUPS
Publication date: 
Thursday, November 22, 2012

In November 2011 the European Parliament voted in favour of freezing EUR 2 million of the expert groups budget. In the attached ´state of play´document the Commission sets out what it intends to do to improve the situation.

 

State of play _ 6 SEPTEMBER 2012 _ CLEAN.pdf
ALTER-EU.NoteforMEPs.Expertgroups.pdf
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After the first round of the expert groups battle

Publication date: 
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Author: 
Corporate Europe Observatory

The Parliament has given the Commission one last chance to clean up expert groups. Campaigners say the battle over corporate capture is not over.

Download full document as pdf: 
LetterBUDGexpertgroups04.10.12.pdf
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Commission must act to tackle business lobbyists in expert groups

Publication date: 
Monday, September 17, 2012

Transparency campaigners say that Commission proposals to tackle the dominance of corporate lobbyists in its advisory groups do not go far enough and that instead new rules must be introduced to protect the legislative process from corporate capture.

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EU commission urged to improve expert group 'transparency'

Publication date: 
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Author: 
Martin Banks
Media title: 
Parliament Magazine
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"The European commission has been accused of failing to recognise the "full scale" of the problem of an alleged lack of transparency in its expert groups. The claim was made by the Brussels-based group ALTER-EU, which has demanded a "fairer" composition of the groups which provide the commission with external expertise for its decision making."

Link to original article: 
http://www.theparliament.com/latest-news/article/newsarticle/eu-commission-urged-to-improve-expert-group-transparency/#.UEho443N
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