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INTER-INSTITUTIONAL NEGOTIATIONS ON EU LOBBY TRANSPARENCY

Submitted by christian on Sun, 03/26/2017 - 13:14

Over 100 NGOs are calling on the Members of the European Parliament to adopt a strong negotiating position on the EU Transparency Register. Negotiations on the new inter-institutional agreement are expected to start soon between the Parliament, Commission and Council.

The NGOs urge MEPs to:

  • Commit to only meet with registered lobbyists: Such a rule would not affect MEPs who meet with citizens from their constituencies, local civic associations or small-scale entrepreneurs. None of these groups would need to join the register unless they met a minimum threshold requirement for lobbying activities. But this rule would greatly enhance the current voluntary register, by narrowing opportunities for lobbying by unregistered organisations, and will greatly encourage the Commission to extend its own ban on meeting unregistered lobbyists to a far greater number of officials.
  • Ensure that more resources are provided to the register secretariat to ensure data quality: All institutions, including the Parliament should urgently devote new resources to the register secretariat to improve the quality of the data, so as to be able to perform a far greater number of checks on declarations each year.
  • Retain the current definition of lobbying, which includes covers all activities which have the objective of directly or indirectly influencing EU policy-making and decision-making. This will ensure that a far greater set of activities are covered by the financial disclosure rules of the register, including the indirect lobbying work performed by many ‘intermediaries’ such as lobby conslutancies.
  • Maintain the objective of a legally-binding lobby register in the long-term.

Signatories

  1. Access!Nfo
  2. Access to Information Programme
  3. Actionaid
  4. Afrika Kontakt
  5. Aitec (Association Internationale de Techniciens, Experts et Chercheurs
  6. Attac
  7. Attac
  8. Attac Espagna (Justicia economica global)
  9. BEUC (The European Consumer Association)
  10. Campaign Against Arms Trade
  11. Chaos Computer Club
  12. CILD
  13. CISLAC (Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre)
  14. Citizens Network Watchdog Poland
  15. Levegö Munkaesoport
  16. Climaxi
  17. Common Weal
  18. Confédération Paysanne
  19. CEO
  20. Corruption Watch
  21. Counter Balance (Challenging Public Investment Banks)
  22. Culture Action Europe
  23. Democracy International
  24. European Federation of Journalists
  25. European Network Against Arms Trade
  26. European Public Health Alliance
  27. European Public Service Union
  28. EUNET
  29. European Network on debt and development (EURODAD)
  30. European Alternatives
  31. AEDH
  32. European Civic Forum
  33. European Coalition for Corporate Justice
  34. EDRI
  35. European Federation of Allergy and Airways Diseases Patient’s Association
  36. European Youth Forum
  37. European Microfinance Network
  38. Fis NUA
  39. Förderverein Informationstechnik und Gesellschaft e.V.
  40. Food & Water Europe
  41. Forum Informationsfreiheit
  42. Frank Bold
  43. France Nature Environnement
  44. Friends of the Earth Europe
  45. Global Justice Now
  46. GONG
  47. Greenpeace
  48. Promoting Environmental Policy that contributes to good health
  49. Institut Ludskych Prav- Human Rights Institute
  50. IBFANIOTALIA
  51. Jubilee Debt Campaign
  52. Keep Ireland Fracking Free
  53. KEPKA
  54. KMU Gegen TTIP
  55. Kom op tegen Kanker
  56. Lingo
  57. Lobby Control
  58. Lobbywatch
  59. Nature Friends Greece
  60. New Economics Foundation
  61. NoGrazie PagoIO!
  62. BV via campesina Austria
  63. Oxfam International
  64. Pecticide Action Network Europe
  65. Postversa
  66. PublicCitizen
  67. RegardsCitoyens.org
  68. Riparte il Futuro
  69. Sciences Citoyennes
  70. SMES Europa (Mental Health and Social Exclusion)
  71. Social Platform
  72. Solidar
  73. SOMO
  74. Spinwatch Public Interest Investigations
  75. Stop Wapenhandel
  76. Sum of Us
  77. Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society
  78. BirdLife International Europe and Central Asia
  79. Tax Justice Network
  80. Terra 1530
  81. Academia de Advocay
  82. The Good Lobby
  83. Corpul Profesionistilor in Lobby
  84. Transparency Internaional EU
  85. Transparency International Belgium
  86. Transparency International France
  87. Transparency International Italia
  88. Transparency International Lithuania
  89. Transparency International Slovenia
  90. Transparency International Espagna
  91. Transnational Institute (TNI)
  92. Global Union Europa
  93. Unlock Democracy
  94. Volonteurope
  95. Vouliwatch.gr
  96. Vredesactie
  97. WECF
  98. WWF
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